But that doesn't mean you shouldn't read both of them. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming's perspective can be neatly summed up through its opening line: "It's worse, much worse, than you think." Geist, standing in for all of us, seems stunned by the scale and urgency of the problem and wants to hear something that will make him feel better.įeeling better is definitely not what's going happen if you read The Uninhabitable Earth or a second new book on climate change, Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich. With his new book, which has quickly become a bestseller, Wallace-Wells wants to be the firefighter telling you your house is going up in flames right now. The disconnect speaks volumes about where we are now relative to climate change. As the interview closed, one of the show's hosts, Willie Geist, looked to Wallace-Wells and said, "Let's end on some hope." He took viewers through scientific projections for drowned cities, death by heat stroke and a massive, endless refugee crisis - due to climate change. It was a telling moment: David Wallace-Wells, author of the new book The Uninhabitable Earth, was making an appearance on MSNBC's talk show Morning Joe. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Uninhabitable Earth Subtitle Life After Warming Author David Wallace-wells
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