American · b. 1982
David Wallace-Wells is an American journalist and author best known for The Uninhabitable Earth, a stark and influential account of the dangers of climate change.
David Wallace-Wells is a journalist and writer who became one of the most prominent voices on climate change with a 2017 magazine article that grew into a bestselling book.
The Uninhabitable Earth (2019) lays out, in unflinching detail, the cascading consequences of unchecked global warming — heat, famine, flooding, economic collapse, and more — in an effort to convey the true scale and urgency of the crisis. Widely read and debated, it helped reshape public conversation about climate. He is now a columnist for The New York Times.
Wallace-Wells is recognized for confronting readers with the hard realities of climate change and the stakes of action and inaction.
by David Wallace-Wells
David Wallace-Wells's harrowing account of climate change. Expanding his viral magazine essay, he surveys the cascading catastrophes a warming planet will bring — heat, hunger, drowning, wildfire, plague, economic collapse — in an unflinching alarm about the future we are choosing.
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