It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all.David Wallace-Wells
We have, trapped in Arctic ice, diseases that have not circulated in the air for millions of years, and which we are woefully underprepared to face.David Wallace-Wells
More than half of the carbon exhaled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has been emitted in just the past three decades.David Wallace-Wells
Climate change is not a matter of “yes” or “no,” not a binary process where we end up either “fucked” or “not fucked.” It is a system that gets worse over time as long as we continue to produce greenhouse gas.David Wallace-Wells
By 2100, without dramatic reductions in emissions, Southern Europe would be in permanent extreme drought... less habitable than the interior of Murmansk, Russia, which is currently well above the Arctic circle.David Wallace-Wells
Indeed, we have all of human history to learn the opposite lesson - that individuals and communities, civilizations and cultures, cling to the patterns of life that they know.David Wallace-Wells
Many perceive global warming as a sort of moral and economic debt, accumulated since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and now come due after several centuries.David Wallace-Wells
Those regions already in decline in the developed world will likely collapse entirely, and even those areas now flourishing may find themselves faltering.David Wallace-Wells
With global warming, we have huffed and puffed and lit a coal fire in every foxhole in every forest on Earth.David Wallace-Wells
The future is not as clear as it seems from the data, because the truth is that climate change is not a discrete problem but a multidimensional, intricately webbed, and infinitely ramifying matrix of them.David Wallace-Wells