The Uninhabitable Earth Life After Warming

His book "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" is available now.

I think there's basically no way that we avoid two degrees of warming, which is like the UN calls catastrophic warming, the island nations of the world call genocide.

It's like an effect everything I think.

I mentioned before, I think two degrees about our best case scenario. Four degrees is where we're on track four now. This piece was looking at five, six, eight degrees of warming so things were not likely to get this century at least.

But all the science says that's totally naive.

He's the author of The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming.

He's the author of The Uninhabitable Earth Life After Warming and I just think that over the past couple of years not just his work on climate change and biodiversity loss but also his work particularly on COVID has been absolutely fantastic.

He's also the author of a best-selling book called The Uninhabitable Earth.

That could mean a sea level rise of between four and eight feet.

whole regions of Africa and Australia and the United States, parts of South America, Asia, south of Siberia would be rendered uninhabitable if that happened

We could see more than 30 million people dealing with water scarcity, major cities along the equator becoming unlivable.

Even in northern latitudes, heat waves that would kill thousands summer, massively deadly heat waves in India and elsewhere, five times as long, 32 times as much extreme heat.

you had predictions of, in some of these regions, you can kiss the beautiful Northeast fall with the beautiful colors goodbye.

The age skew of the disease hasn't changed. And that's not to say that kids are at absolutely no risk. It's just that compared to the population as a whole, they face a vanishingly small chance of severe illness and really mortality.

Personally, I actually, I do think the vaccinating case is a good idea. I think we need to do what we can to sort of slow the spread. And I think the risks are quite small.

But I think that when we think about the sorts of risks that our children are facing, we should really understand that almost all of it is in our heads.

In total, in the American pandemic, we've got something like 800 children, which is to say people under the age of 18 and not true children, 800 people under the age of 18 who've died from COVID.

That's not nothing. Each of those deaths is a tragedy. But as a country, we're facing 800,000 deaths. And I think that gives you just a sense of, you know, the relatively small risk faced by, by, you know, all the kids in our in our lives.

This was written before Climate Leviathan. This was written before The Uninhabitable Earth.

And I really started like my wife can tell you at a certain point, I was losing sleep and I kept kind of looking at our world and going, what am I missing here? And rather than do, you know, my initial idea was, oh, do a big, dramatic, dystopic, serious movie.

And I had the fortunate, unfortunate experience of colliding with a lot of this information from reading scientific reports and reading a great book by David Wallace Wells called Uninhabitable Earth, which if you haven't read it, read it and it will wake you up when it comes to the climate.

His 2019 book, The Uninhabitable Earth Life After Warming was a number one bestseller. It was, as one reviewer said, one of the most terrifying books you will ever read The Washington Post called it The Silent Spring of Our Time.

I've seen charts that are scared that you highlighted even just thinking about the ocean the world's oceans but it is also the case that while we do know the underlying trend of the underlying story we actually don't know why things are so high right now why why the temperature so hot

The Uninhabitable Earth life after warming of the dangers we face as the planet warms