Climate Change: How Bad Can it Be?

Trump on Earth

You’ve probably heard by now that, according to a new UN report, the world has just over a decade to get climate change under control before it’s too late. And the report says we need a profound transformation to get there.

The report has got us thinking about an episode we aired last year about what life on Earth could look like with the worst case scenario.

David Wallace-Wells wrote an article last summer entitled “The Uninhabitable Earth.” It was the most widely read article in the online history of New York Magazine. Its imagined future was so grim, it spawned response articles like “Are we as doomed as that New York Magazine Article Says?” in the Atlantic Magazine.

On this episode, we talk to Wallace-Wells, to find out -- is it really as bad as all that?