They have read David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, which tells us what life is going to be like on this planet. ( JOSH HANER / NYT )“It is worse, much worse, than you think,” writes Wallace-Wells, the American journalist who may be the Rachel Carson of 2019 science journalism. He lists the “elements of chaos,” meaning sectors of suffering: heat; hunger; drowning; wildfire; unpredictable storms; freshwater drain; dying oceans; unbreathable air; plagues; economic collapse; and climate wars. Two thirds of the planet will live in cities, heat islands by day but now with no cool nighttime reprieve. “When the trees are cleared out, the bugs move in,” writes Wallace-Wells, which means malaria and worse.

Source: thestar March 12, 2019 20:37 UTC