David Wallace-Wells

About the Author

David Wallace-Wells is a journalist and deputy editor of New York magazine. His work as a journalist is largely focused on the climate crisis and the near future of science and technology, especially as they relate to global warming. He was a 2019 New America Foundation National Fellow, and his debut work of book-length nonfiction, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, was a #1 New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

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The Uninhabitable Earth

In The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, author David Wallace-Wells draws on climate data, reports form the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and conversations and i... view guide