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“the story of Atlantis, having endured and enchanted for several millennia, will compete with the real-time sagas of the Marshall Islands and Miami Beach,”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

“At four degrees, there would be eight million more cases of dengue fever each year in Latin America alone and close to annual global food crises. There could be 9 percent more heat-related deaths. Damages from river flooding would grow thirtyfold in Bangladesh, twentyfold in India, and as much as sixtyfold in the United Kingdom. In certain places, six climate-driven natural disasters could strike simultaneously, and, globally, damages could pass $600 trillion—more than twice the wealth as exists in the world today. Conflict and warfare could double.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

“Nearly everything we understand about global warming was understood in 1979.”
― Nathaniel Rich, Losing Earth: A Recent History

“150 million more people would die from air pollution alone in a 2-degree warmer world than in a 1.5-degree warmer one. Later that year, the IPCC raised the stakes further: in the gap between 1.5 degrees and 2, it said, hundreds of millions of lives were at stake.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming