The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future

Abstract

David Wallace-Wells says that he 'is not an environmentalist' and does not think of himself as 'a nature person' (Wallace-Wells, 2019: 6). However, he collected stories and evidence about climate change for years, and thought that climate change was not receiving the attention it merited. He wrote an article in the New York Magazine in 2017 that generated great interest – and some controversy (Matthews, 2019). He then went on to write The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller.