David Wallace-Wells


David Wallace-Wells is an American journalist known for his writings on climate change. He wrote the 2017 essay "The Uninhabitable Earth", which he later expanded into the 2019 book The Uninhabitable Earth.

Early life and education

Wallace-Wells attended University of Chicago and graduated from Brown University in 2004 with a degree in history. He is married to Risa Needleman.

Career

David Wallace-Wells' work has appeared in New York magazine, where he is a deputy editor. He also writes for The Guardian. He is a National Fellow at New America. In March 2019, he appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. On July 17, 2019, Wallace-Wells appeared on an episode of The Doctor's Farmacy, a video produced by the functional physician, Mark Hyman M.D., who provides an indexed guide to topics covered, as well as, a review of the discussion.
Since 2017, Wallace-Wells has written extensively about climate change in New York magazine. He has said that he is optimistic about the earth's environmental future, but he remains cautious. He has said that no matter the degree of environmental damage, "it will always be the case that the next decade could contain more warming, and more suffering, or less warming and less suffering."
His best known work is "The Uninhabitable Earth", an article published July 9, 2017 in New York magazine. The essay received mixed to negative criticism from some scientists, but was considered an important and impactful work by many reviewers.
He later turned the work into a full-length book of the same name, published in 2019. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the book Elizabeth Kolbert said in a book blurb that David Wallace-Wells argues that the impacts of climate change will be much graver than most people realize and that he is right.

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