David Wallace-Wells Surviving the World: Making the Best of a Burdened Planet
photo: Beowulf Sheehan
Thu, Mar 5 / 7:30 PM / The New Vic
The future is being transformed by climate change faster and more dramatically than we realized. Politics, technology, cities, business – even our sense of history, human rights and justice – will all be changed by this massive force. But how? To what degree? In his critically-hailed instant New York Times bestseller The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells tells the epic story of our time. He asks urgent questions – how will the map of global power shift as coastlines are redrawn? – and reminds us that everything is within our control, so long as we resist complacency. A celebrated journalist, Wallace-Wells moves beyond “what must be done” to investigate “what will the world actually look like.” A look at geopolitical and economic consequences of climate change, The Uninhabitable Earth was named to the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2019, GQ’s Best Books of 2019, and was chosen as one of Time magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2019. How will humans live together on a degraded planet? Will carbon become a central topic of the 21st century the way human rights were to the 20th? How will the dynamics
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Presented through the generosity of Leslie Sweem Bhutani between nations shift as a result of divergent climate impacts? Wallace-Wells also examines how public sentiment and political action are changing – again, much faster than anyone might have predicted. He reminds us that no sector will be left untouched – but change will vary. This, he says, is the moment to truly engage with what climate change really means, a time for human action after decades of inaction. Wallace-Wells is deputy editor at New York magazine, where he writes a column on climate change, and where his viral cover story “The Uninhabitable Earth” was met with widespread acclaim, paving the way for his book. Formerly the deputy editor of The Paris Review and a National Fellow at the New America Foundation, he is the co-host of the podcast 2038, which interrogates predictions about the next two decades. Books are available for purchase in the lobby and a signing follows the event
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