David Wallace-Wells
Journalist and Bestselling Author of The Uninhabitable Earth
Unfortunately, David Wallace-Wells was unable to attend the Climate Crisis Forum due to a family emergency.
The future is being transformed by climate change, faster and more dramatically than we realized. Politics, technology, cities, business, even our sense of history, human rights, and justice—all will be changed by this massive force. But how? To what degree? In his critically-hailed instant New York Times bestseller The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells tells the epic story of our time. In urgent talks, he asks key questions—how will the map of global power shift as coastlines are redrawn?—and reminds us that everything is within our control, so long as we resist complacency.
Wallace-Wells moves beyond “what must be done” to investigate “what will the world actually look like.” Neither a scientist nor an environmental activist per se, Wallace-Wells is a celebrated journalist who has spent his life living in cities, and adds a much-needed focus on storytelling and the humanities, as well as a look at geopolitical and economic consequences. How will humans live together on a degraded planet? Will carbon become a central topic of the 21st century the way human rights were to the 20th? How will the dynamic between nations shift as a result of divergent climate impacts? Wallace-Wells also examines how public sentiment and political action are changing, much faster than anyone might have predicted. He reminds us that no sector will be left untouched, but change will vary. This, he says, is the moment to truly engage with what climate change really means.
Wallace-Wells is the Deputy Editor at New York magazine, where he writes a column on climate change, and where his viral cover story, “The Uninhabitable Earth,” was published to widespread acclaim. Formerly the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review, and a National Fellow at the New America Foundation, he is the co-host of the 2038 podcast, which interrogates predictions about the next two decades.
The future is being transformed by climate change, faster and more dramatically than we realized. Politics, technology, cities, business, even our sense of history, human rights, and justice—all will be changed by this massive force. But how? To what degree? In his critically-hailed instant New York Times bestseller The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells tells the epic story of our time. In urgent talks, he asks key questions—how will the map of global power shift as coastlines are redrawn?—and reminds us that everything is within our control, so long as we resist complacency.
Wallace-Wells moves beyond “what must be done” to investigate “what will the world actually look like.” Neither a scientist nor an environmental activist per se, Wallace-Wells is a celebrated journalist who has spent his life living in cities, and adds a much-needed focus on storytelling and the humanities, as well as a look at geopolitical and economic consequences. How will humans live together on a degraded planet? Will carbon become a central topic of the 21st century the way human rights were to the 20th? How will the dynamic between nations shift as a result of divergent climate impacts? Wallace-Wells also examines how public sentiment and political action are changing, much faster than anyone might have predicted. He reminds us that no sector will be left untouched, but change will vary. This, he says, is the moment to truly engage with what climate change really means.
Wallace-Wells is the Deputy Editor at New York magazine, where he writes a column on climate change, and where his viral cover story, “The Uninhabitable Earth,” was published to widespread acclaim. Formerly the Deputy Editor of The Paris Review, and a National Fellow at the New America Foundation, he is the co-host of the 2038 podcast, which interrogates predictions about the next two decades.
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