The Uninhabitable Earth one year later

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6 жыл бұрын

David Wallace-Wells rocked the world when he published The Uninhabitable Earth on July 9, 2017, in New York Magazine. Because the world, you see, was not ready for the raw truth about climate change. He dug into the science of it, found an abyss between those stories and the ones being told in mainstream media, and sought to develop a new narrative of alarm and action that would bridge the two and awaken the world.
One year later, he reveals the journey that led to this dramatic tale and brings us up to date on each of the points he made in Uninhabitable, with a special focus this time on building resilience to what we know is coming.
Find The Uninhabitable Earth here: nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/...
Find the complete blog post of this video interview in The Resilience Journal here resiliencejournal.com/ and read more of Wallace-Wells' amazing reporting in nymag.com/author/David%20Walla...

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@vladimir0700 5 жыл бұрын

As I watch more of this I’m more than a little taken aback by Well’s unexpected optimism. It seems that even he fails to realize that we have entered the exponential phase of environmental destruction and climate change. At the time I write this I am absolutely convinced that we don’t have more than a few decades, at most, before the total collapse of civilization-probably much less.

@theresiliencejournal459 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it would seem his optimism is at odds with his research. But hey, whether we make it in the end or not, the important takeaway is that we all must PREPARE for the scenario he presents, since as you say, that appears to be the most likely scenario at this point.

@lacha608 5 жыл бұрын

When you're a princess the future looks rosier than it does for the average person.

@domitron 5 жыл бұрын

He is "developing narratives" to help him cope with it. In other words, he's learning to bullshit with the best of them! Soon he'll be singing the optimism narrative better than Michael Mann himself!

@aburkealex 5 жыл бұрын

Civilization will not collapse it will crumble until nothing remains but rubble. For the farmers of Chad and Cameroon and parts of India their civilization is dust. It is impossible to put a time table on it. Just wait your turn because it's coming sooner or later to your neighborhood too.

@christinearmington 5 жыл бұрын

It’s so weird now to watch him report on Jeffrey Epstein. That enough of a total asshole for you?

@vladimir0700 5 жыл бұрын

The “bubble of delusion” definitely has NOT been punctured! NO one that I have spoken to seems to think that there’s any problem at all. In fact, they regard my comments on the subject the same way people did decades ago when I would try warn about environmental destruction-like I’m an alarmist or crazy.

@theresiliencejournal459 5 жыл бұрын

The way I see it, Power To The Alarmists! Absolutely. Those of us who know this truth have no choice but to let the world know. We get to save lives. If others don't want to listen today, they'll remember and act when their day comes. So keep at it, brother.

@christinearmington 5 жыл бұрын

It’s appalling. Even well educated, politically open people don’t want to go there. Then again, they have children.

@climatedeceptionnetwork4122 3 жыл бұрын

May 15, 2021: almost three years have passed since this video first appeared. Biden is president and he has, at least, a semblance of understanding, unlike the reactionary republicans. We will see the end of hope in 2022 if the Republican Party takes the house, senate, and presidency. ed evans

@guesswho6038 Жыл бұрын

@@theresiliencejournal459 The thing is nobody asked to be saved by you. Leave us alone.

@simon9012002 5 жыл бұрын

Let's not forget Guy McPherson. He has been ahead of this for a decade.

@grindupBaker 4 жыл бұрын

Yebbut Guy McPherson's feeble attempts at doing his own WG1 climate science are utterly appalling drivel, quite sickening.

@aland5478 5 жыл бұрын

David is so gifted with telling us the truth. I feel ready to die on a day to day biases. Thinking about less than 10 years before the end haunts me. Makes me very sad and wanting more.

@AlexDiaz2030 5 жыл бұрын

Sadness, even despair, is a natural reaction. We're human! But then we have to face this truth exactly like we face every other similar devastating or terminal truth: with a mix of resignation because we can't do anything about the fate, determination to make the most of our remaining time for ourselves and others, and adaptation to whatever comes. Wrap your mind and soul around that, and you'll be OK.

@aland5478 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. Death is not the end, life will find a way!

@timtam2126 5 жыл бұрын

Don't give up hope even if it is all we have...there are some solutions that will have benefits and we're not all doomed. Enjoy life while you can...you owe this to yourself and to humanity

@gedofgont1006 Жыл бұрын

I hope you're feeling better nowadays. I'd recommend a healthy dose of Professor William Happer, as a corrective to all the doomsday scenario pontificaters. Be well, be happy, be thankful!

@kgrandchamp 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome interview...scary as hell.. but thanks! I admire your calm and control in face of this! We have to get together to solve the problem!

@AlexDiaz2030 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Kenneth. And absolutely, it will take EVERYONE!!

@MrDanbloom 5 жыл бұрын

7300 word article has been turned into a 85,000 word book which will hit bookstores on February 19, 2019. priced at 25 dollars, 250 pages, so a dollar per page. a must read for 2019 in hardback and later in 2020 in paperback edition priced at 15 dollars

@AlexDiaz2030 5 жыл бұрын

Are you talking about the Wallace-Wells article? Are you writing the book? Sounds like a winner!

@MrDanbloom 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Alex, I know your work and byline.....YES that article and ... NO, i am not writing the book, HE already has and it is due out pub date February 19 from major publishing house. see my post here: -- northwardho.blogspot.com/2019/01/two-new-books-by-climate-change-risk.html

@alexcarter8807 5 жыл бұрын

10c a page. Math is hard!

@raginald7mars408 5 жыл бұрын

We favour the Abundance and the wealth of pure Ignorance! Ignorance will save us!

@AlexandreLollini 5 жыл бұрын

Heat is way more than that. When it is hot, productivity falls. To solve any problem or maintenance you need to work outside. To repair leak, road, rail... Heat melts power lines when everyone fires AC to the max, Heat prevents nuclear power stations from running full power. Heat can also prevent data centers from running full power, or the power for cooling is increased. There is no real solution to heat. When it is hot every part of society is slower, and looses efficiency, ER and medical, fire fighters, military, ALL is affected by heat. Even inside a population that is used to the desert heat, limits are there.

@alexcarter8807 5 жыл бұрын

So true. And unless you're just plain too poor to have AC, you're going to crank on the AC once the heat gets to a certain point.

@AlexandreLollini 5 жыл бұрын

Anyhow you look at the problem it is all negative. Our society and systems are all about hiding problems, trash is hidden from us, when we crank up AC we hide problem from us and give problem to grid operators, electric cars need a lot of power of course it is overall better, but it is impossible for a complete population to adopt electric cars as fast as smartphones because there are bottlenecks everywhere from battery production to available grid and electricity transportation by lines and capacity. There is no way it goes fast enough, except by sacrifice an living standards and just use and consume less, less new items, reuse, repair, make items live longer.

@gedofgont1006 Жыл бұрын

You're being absurd. Have you noticed how the heat tends to go away, once summer ends?

@gedofgont1006 Жыл бұрын

@@AlexandreLollini Klaus Schwab would love you! 🙄

@AlexandreLollini Жыл бұрын

@@gedofgont1006 so look for wheat and corn next season.

@lacha608 5 жыл бұрын

Good conversation. It's about tome for a two years later conversation. Are you able to do that?

@AlexDiaz2030 5 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure I get your question. Able to do the conversation two years after his article was published? I actually interviewed him one year later, and it has been a little shy of one year after that. So perhaps you missed the time frame. In any case, thanks for the "good conversation" part!

@lacha608 5 жыл бұрын

More and more science comes out all.the time. I think it's worth revisiting the conversation every year.

@AlexandreLollini 5 жыл бұрын

When the middle of the bell curve is one person over four gets food, anywhere on the curve your are, you're screwed.

@sdeshera 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, Guy is where you find find the whole truth. He forgot to mention the aerosol masking effect ......

@jimbobaggans1564 4 жыл бұрын

Yes he did.

@grindupBaker 4 жыл бұрын

Yebbut Guy McPherson's feeble attempts at doing his own WG1 climate science are utterly appalling drivel, quite sickening.

@minnesconsinprepping7856 5 жыл бұрын

The only way you can be any kind of optimistic about what is coming as far as climate change goes, is if you simply ignore reality. You ignore reality in the sense that, you KNOW we're not going to do enough to stop global warming. What aren't we going to do? We're not going to reduce our population, we're not going to replace all of our energy needs with solar and wind....(actually impossible to do), and we're for sure not going to even replace enough of it to make any difference in the time frame required to do it in. in order to slow global warming. We're not going to stop flying around the world, we're not going to stop using plastic, and we're most definitely not going to stop economic growth. And even if we DID do all of that, it would all have to be done by, like, next year. And we all know, that AIN'T happenin!! Yes, the news coming out of the Arctic is terrible. In fact, at current observed trends, it will probably be ice free by somewhere around 2022-2023. By ice free, I mean, ice free at the end of the melt season. It's going to be called "The Blue Ocean Event." The first time that happens, it will most likely be only for a few days, maybe weeks, at the end of the summer melt season, and then it will of course re-freeze over the winter. Every year after that however, the ice free period will be longer. A scientist that I follow believes that it will be ice free year round, about 10 years after the first Blue Ocean Event. This is why everything I talked about above, would need to happen by next year. Actually....it needed to start happening about 30 years ago, but, I digress. We're talking about MAJOR changes happening to our planet, in 3 to 4 years. When the Arctic goes ice free, the global average temperature will begin to skyrocket, which is why it is believed that it will be ice free year round by about 10 years after the first BOE. And btw, the global average temperature will have risen to about 4 to 5 c warmer than pre-industrial by then. There will be no reliable enough weather anywhere on the planet to be able to produce enough food for (by then) 8+ billion people. You think the weather's bad now? We're basically at 2 c warmer right now, and it's this crazy. (if you think we're only 1.1 degrees warmer than pre-industrial, you don't even know the very 1st thing about global warming.) We've known about all of this stuff for decades, (actually in reality, about a century) and all we've done, and continue to do, is argue about whether it's even real or not. And all the while, the CO2 levels increase, and the temperature goes up, and the Arctic is melting, glaciers around the globe are retreating, major droughts and floods are on the rise, and, here we are in 2019, still talking about whether global warming is real or not. And by "us" I don't mean us. I mean society in general. And then in 2018, the IPCC comes out with their latest assessment, and says that we have 12 years to fix climate change before catastrophic consequences happen. Well.....no. We don't have 12 years. For one, we don't have 12 years, because the data that the IPCC are referring to in that assessment are about 10 years old. So, going by the actual math, they should have said that we have TWO years to fix climate change in order to avoid catastrophic consequences, and they would have been a little closer to the truth. And secondly, no, we don't have 12 years, because by 12 years from now, the Arctic will be well on its way to being ice free year round, and we'll probably be at least 3 C warmer than pre-industrial by then. Whether you want to believe it or not......it's too late. It wouldn't be too late if it weren't for us. Whenever you hear someone saying that there's still time.....sure....maybe there WOULD be, if it weren't for all of the things I just talked about earlier. There might be time, if we did all the things that we know we need to do..........NOW. But, we're just going to keep kicking the proverbial can down the road, right up until the end, which is going to happen LONG before 2100.

@theresiliencejournal459 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for that, Harley. You're absolutely right. Time's up to solve climate change. And if there's still time, our politics and economics ensure that window will close before the crisis is solved, so the outcome is the same. That's why my focus is ADAPTATION, because if there's one thing left to do, it is helping as many people as possible prepare as thoroughly as possible for whatever comes.

@minnesconsinprepping7856 5 жыл бұрын

@@theresiliencejournal459 Thank you for that response. I agree in helping as many people as possible, which is why I basically scream at the top of my lungs every single day about climate change...and...no one cares. Even if they do.....they don't. As far as adaptation....well....I'm getting ready as best I can, for myself and my wife. I've tried to involve as many others as I can...and....no one's really interested in actually putting in any work. Very, very few people believe what we believe. And additionally, as far as adaptation.....I don't know how long we can adapt. There's wet bulb temperatures to content with, etc. And...even if you have the ultimate Greenhouse, you're going to have to grow an INCREDIBLE amount of food in order to get you through the bad times. Keep in mind.....there will be essentially no other animals on the land. There will be no fish in the sea, and the sea, and all other water itself will be highly toxic, and/or contaminated. The world's 400 + nuclear power plants will melt down, spewing ionizing radiation all over the planet. I don't really believe in adaptation much farther than surviving the initial onslaught of the collapse of Global Industrial Civilization.

@grindupBaker 4 жыл бұрын

Your "When the Arctic goes ice free, the global average temperature will begin to skyrocket" is baseless drivel. The actual increase in GMST from that is very well known and I've computed it myself and I got 104% of what the scientists got with their paper. Of course, nobody other than the climate scientists and a minuscule

@CrakenFlux Жыл бұрын

what is a woman shows how many people are more than willing to ignore reality. IQ in the US has gone down 2 points. We are getting even stupider. I don t feel bad for the responsible specie, i cry for all the other incredible ones that have gone and will go.

@gedofgont1006 Жыл бұрын

Great! Bring it on, I say. There's nothing good on TV anymore, so I need something dramatic and exciting to take its place. Break out the popcorn and roll on the apocalypse!

@SuperTonyony 2 жыл бұрын

Vocal fry should have been outlawed by the Geneva Conventions.

@magicalthinkingbarbie4657 5 жыл бұрын

Human can not grasp exponential. So I don't think it's alarmist. Because once it is too late to do anything is when humans will finally be able to cognizant of it.

@AlexDiaz2030 5 жыл бұрын

It's one of the reasons Wallace-Wells cites in his 2017 piece that keep people from grasping and acting. So you're absolutely spot on. Thanks for the comment!

@charlescoryn9614 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's the magic word, 'exponential'. Here is Albert Bartlett's video regarding the exponential function, it's a must watch .......... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qa9hdpx13q_Nj2w.html

@charlescoryn9614 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's the video...... stick with it to the end where he comments on population growth. I think I read we are growing at 1.7% a year here in the U.S., well, divide 70 by 1.7 and get a doubling time of 41 years. Even at 1% the population will double in 70 years.........

@tallesttreeintheforest Жыл бұрын

you are alive and you still live on earth?

@vladimir0700 5 жыл бұрын

I think I can sum up the whole situation in one simple phrase-WE’RE FUCKED!

@stevealdrich2472 5 жыл бұрын

peak oil ends economic growth regardless of climate change.

@geofffriend4161 Жыл бұрын

David does not make clear the irresolvabl problem of the Aerosol Masking effect.

@CarloRolle 3 жыл бұрын

There seems to be a misunderstanding: the increase in CO2 will bring our air out of control, not our hair!

@veganvivjones4655 5 жыл бұрын

How much do you consider Geoengineering has contributed to this problem, not just contrails/chemtrails but standing rockets (plus satellites) that are launched from all major countries on a daily basis, with payloads of thousands of tons of nanoparticles of heavy metals such as aluminium, strontium, barium, et al. Add to this dirty bunker fuel from ships, whose contrails cause global dimming by day (used as a great excuse not to clean up their act) but conversely raise temperatures by night. The expert in this field is Jim Lee whose KZfaq videos are worth their weight in gold.

@twstephanie50 3 жыл бұрын

We need to turn to Jesus and ask and trust HIM to help us also.

@janklaas6885 2 жыл бұрын

yeahh lets turn to a dead guy. 🤣

@jasonsstratton Жыл бұрын

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one. Two thirds of all day time high temps in America were set in the 1930s. Tide guage data is available to see that the rate of ocean rise has not changed in hundreds of years.

@madas1000000 4 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure what point there is in triggering the physiological threat response, with this rhetoric, that results in an inability to take on new information and lessens creative problem solving. Its totally counter productive, But I suppose it might make you feel like your doing something. Its like all you middle class exploiters "woke" up yesterday to the life you live (have lived) that exploits people to support your lifestyle and now... omg it might impact me so I'm going preach fear into everyone. As if you never realised that the system you support was already raping the planet, killing people you've never met and creating horror you could never imagine. Nice one. You just all just strike me as solipsistic narcissists.