( Muffett, CEO and president of the Center for International Environmental Law. ( Also Featuredīrett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity. Guestsĭavid Wallace-Wells, columnist for the New York Times Magazine and an opinion writer for the New York Times. Author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. Today, On Point: David Wallace-Wells on climate change and climate hope. "We have to start thinking about what it means to navigate a world that is post normal, post safe, and yet sub-apocalyptic," Wallace-Wells says. But Wallace-Wells says focusing too much on climate doom is stopping us from making critical, permanent changes. That doesn't mean that carbon reduction efforts should stop. So roughly half what we thought we were heading for." "Now, most of them would say we're heading for about two or three degrees. "Five years ago, certainly ten years ago, most climate scientists thought that we were heading for four or five degrees of warming," Wallace-Wells says. He's been writing about climate for years. "We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator."īut journalist David Wallace-Wells says there's reason for hope. Secretary General says this to the world. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. A forest is incinerated by the Oak Fire near Midpines, northeast of Mariposa, California, on July 23, 2022.
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