But at the same time, thanks to a number of factors, the world turning away from coal, a global political awakening. And as I said a minute ago, that story is true.
In part because the news outside their windows and on their social media feeds is of an ever-intensifying climate crisis. And I think few people really appreciate or understand that. In fact, a lot of the things that we were worrying about then seem almost impossible to imagine today. But the distant future doesn't look nearly as grim as it looked five years ago. "And that's about the worst-case scenario is becoming considerably less likely to. And that's the one that I wrote about a few weeks ago. And we're not moving nearly fast enough to secure the sort of future that a generation ago we might have hope for. And I do think that story is a really important one. And probably those will grow over the coming decades. There are parts of the planet that are, of course, pretty hard to live in. Interview HighlightsĪre we hurtling our way to climate catastrophe and an uninhabitable Earth?ĭavid Wallace-Wells: "I wouldn't say an uninhabitable earth. ( Muffett, CEO and president of the Center for International Environmental Law. ( Also Featuredīrett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity. Guestsĭavid Wallace-Wells, columnist for the New York Times Magazine and an opinion writer for the New York Times. Author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. Today, On Point: David Wallace-Wells on climate change and climate hope. "We have to start thinking about what it means to navigate a world that is post normal, post safe, and yet sub-apocalyptic," Wallace-Wells says. But Wallace-Wells says focusing too much on climate doom is stopping us from making critical, permanent changes.
That doesn't mean that carbon reduction efforts should stop. So roughly half what we thought we were heading for." "Now, most of them would say we're heading for about two or three degrees. "Five years ago, certainly ten years ago, most climate scientists thought that we were heading for four or five degrees of warming," Wallace-Wells says.
He's been writing about climate for years. "We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator."īut journalist David Wallace-Wells says there's reason for hope. Secretary General says this to the world. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. A forest is incinerated by the Oak Fire near Midpines, northeast of Mariposa, California, on July 23, 2022.
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