The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

by David Wallace-Wells

The majority of the burning has come since the premiere of Seinfeld. Since the end of World War II, the figure is about 85 percent.

One reason carbon emissions have accelerated so much in the last generation is also an explanation for why history seems to be proceeding so much faster, with so much more happening, everywhere, each year, even every day: this is what results when there are simply that many more humans around, each walking the earth with carbon footprints.