David Wallace-Wells
@dwallacewells
Writer @nytopinion and columnist @NYTmag. Newsletter on climate and the messy future (https://tinyurl.com/dwwnyt). Author of The Uninhabitable Earth.
Next month, @timdugganbooks will publish my big climate book, The Uninhabitable Earth, in which I try to take a very broad, and very long, view of the state of the climate crisis and all the ways it promises to transform how we live on this planet—all of us. (1/x)
“David Wallace-Wells has produced a willfully terrifying polemic that reads like a cross between @StephenKing and Stephen Hawking.” @Andrew_Solomon on #TheUninhabitableEarth by @dwallacewells, out 2/19/19: prh.com/theuninhabitab… @timdugganbooks
I sort of vaguely knew this, but then you read the words and it's actually jaw-dropping
doing some research on sojourner truth and it's amazing how that white woman changed her original words and dialect in the "ain't i a woman" speech to make her sound like a southern woman when she was a dutch speaker from new york. ridiculous lol
This is a remarkable evolutionary feat that many want to ignore, or wipe their brow thinking they’ve dodged a bullet. Viral evolution will not reverse. It’ll continue evolving towards a virus that poses increasing risk to humans & animals across the globe. It’s critically…
⚠️BREAKING H5N1 BirdFlu has infected 50% more mammalian species over the last year, than over the previous 20 years combined. This study looks at mammalian infections pre and post March 2024. ✴️”By March 2024, at least 48 mammal species had been reported infected by H5N1, with…
Trump’s approval among 18- to 29-year-olds fell from 55% in February to 28% in July, with disapproval rising from 45% to 72%, a 54-point net swing (CBS)
The Final Map ! — You can see the Commie Corridor + Hillside Avenue from space — Mamdani blitzed Cuomo in Harlem, Hamilton Heights, & Bed-Stuy — Cuomo holds the UWS & UES, but submits a poor showing in Manhattan A new map of NYC: less stratified by race, more by housing and age
PRECINCT LEVEL RESULTS FOR THE FINAL ROUND ARE OUT!!!! Blue is Zohran, Yellow is Cuomo!
I don’t think people realize how quickly the American country music genre is growing. 10x revenue in 25 years. Why?
American country/folk artists like Zach Bryan represent the cultural product of a certain people, time, and place— and should be appreciated as such. I think many coastal conservative intellectual types fail to see importance of the genre, maybe out of a desire to be seen as…
EVs take over slowly, then suddenly. In June: >Norway EVs at 97.7% share of sales >Sweden EVs at 65.3% >Ethiopia EVs at 60% >China EVs at 53% >UK EVs at 35.9% >Germany EVs at 28.4% >France EVs at 24% >Australia EVs at 15% The Age of Electricity is here, move over Age of Oil
This is absolutely absurd. Doha, Qatar just recorded a heat index of 133°F (56°C) at 1 am local time. Even the nights do not provide reprieve from the deadly heat and humidity on the Persian Gulf. This comes just hours after Dubai recorded a 140°F (60°C) heat index.
NEW – Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% | @laurimyllyvirta Read here: buff.ly/V7BVSsL
Pierre Bourdieu called our ability to naturalize any part of our lives (including oppression) as "just the way things are," never even realizing it can be otherwise, "a wonderful instrument of ideology, much bigger and more powerful than television or propaganda"
probably the greatest evil of ideology is obfuscating the deeply felt social relations/reality that almost all average people experience & think about constantly low-key
AFP reports that its reporters (one text freelancer, three photographers and six video freelancers) still on-site in Gaza are currently dying from hunger. They write: "Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners…
I think this is pretty spot on, from @jwherrman latest
“The continued use of the linear no-threshold model is therefore not based on a fully validated scientific fact; it is a pragmatic, intentionally conservative policy choice.” thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/…
The head of FEMA's search and rescue unit has resigned, and said the Trump administration was causing "chaos" at the agency and hindered the Texas response. nyti.ms/4lKhYEv
Yet another paper finding huge negative mortality results from air pollution. Wild methods on this one from Brazil
The Covid pandemic accelerated brain aging as seen in @uk_biobank paired MRI, 2 cohorts nature.com/articles/s4146…
Electricity already delivers more than a third of useful energy worldwide and the share is growing rapidly. This data is only up to 2022, but the trend is clear. The electrification of transport (EVs), heating (heat pumps) and increasingly industry will keep this line going up.
Wendy Brown: "There are so many reasons why liberals are suspicious of charisma, even of strong leadership! There’s liberal anxiety about fascism and liberal horror of populism, to be sure, but also quotidian liberal commitments to rational procedures and institutions and, above…
“Perhaps because we’ve become so adept at cooling inside spaces with air conditioning, we’ve forgotten the importance of cooling outside spaces, too. There is no technology that cools the outdoors as effectively as a tree.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
How many cigarettes are you indirectly smoking due to air pollution levels? We used Berkeley Earth’s rule of thumb ( 🚬 = 22 µg/m3 PM2.5 concentration) to calculate the number of cigarettes people are indirectly smoking based on PM2.5 pollution in cities worldwide.