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David Wallace-Wells
“130 feet of sea-level rise, enough to draw a new American coastline as far west as I-95.”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells
“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

David Wallace-Wells
“At three degrees, southern Europe would be in permanent drought, and the average drought in Central America would last nineteen months longer and in the Caribbean twenty-one months longer. In northern Africa, the figure is sixty months longer—five years. The areas burned each year by wildfires would double in the Mediterranean and sextuple, or more, in the United States. At”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells
“At two degrees, the ice sheets will begin their collapse, 400 million more people will suffer from water scarcity, major cities in the equatorial band of the planet will become unlivable, and even in the northern latitudes heat waves will kill thousands each summer. There would be thirty-two times as many extreme heat waves in India, and each would last five times as long, exposing ninety-three times more people. This is our best-case scenario”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells
“If you had to invent a threat grand enough, and global enough, to plausibly conjure into being a system of true international cooperation, climate change would be it—the threat everywhere, and overwhelming, and total. And yet now, just as the need for that kind of cooperation is paramount, indeed necessary for anything like the world we know to survive, we are only unbuilding those alliances—recoiling into nationalistic corners and retreating from collective responsibility and from each other. That collapse of trust is a cascade, too. —”
― David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

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