Matt

“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

“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

“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

“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