The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

by David Wallace-Wells

Of course, those are religious fantasies: to escape the body and transcend the world.

We won’t get there through the dietary choices of individuals, but through policy changes. In an age of personal politics, hypocrisy can look like a cardinal sin; but it can also articulate a public aspiration. Eating organic is nice, in other words, but if your goal is to save the climate your vote is much more important.

do-gooder capitalists like Bill Gates.

Is he an advocate of capitalism? Or does he just happen to be a successful entrepreneur?

There is no good thing in the world that will be made more abundant, or spread more widely, by global warming.

Arable land?

Miami Beach, built just decades ago, will disappear,

remodeling shipping routes responsible for the very idea of globalization. And

Thats a bit much

No one wants to see disaster coming, but those who look, do. Climate science has arrived at this terrifying conclusion not casually, and not with glee, but by systematically ruling out every alternative explanation for observed warming—even though that observed warming is more or less precisely what would be expected given only the rudimentary understanding of the greenhouse effect advanced by John Tyndall and Eunice Foote in the 1850s, when America was reaching its first industrial peak.

on Earth, where it is no longer comfortable, and only getting less so. No human has ever lived on a planet as hot as this one;

You're saying it's uncomfortable now?

breathability

Is the breathability of most air threatened or is this hyperbole?

“There’s no number of helicopters or trucks that we can buy, no number of firefighters that we can have, no amount of brush that we can clear that will stop this,” Garcetti told me. “The only thing that will stop this is when the Earth, probably long after we’re gone, relaxes into a more predictable weather state.”

Al Gore, James Hansen,

Michael Mann,

Risa, my love,

I thought Risa was your mother?

fifty or more to come.

You should not expect to live past 80.