The Uninhabitable Earth
Life After Warming
Event
This year, New America celebrates 20 years of creating and incubating the next big ideas that address some of the nation's and the world’s toughest problems. We are thinkers, researchers, problem-solvers, and storytellers, united by our goal to hold our nation to its highest ideals. We recognize the challenges presented by rapid technological and social change, and work to ensure that the solutions made possible by those changes lead to greater opportunity for all. As we reach forward toward the next 20 years of New America, we will strive to be an engine of American renewal, at home and abroad.
“It is worse, much worse, than you think.” - David Wallace-Wells
If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, impacting thousands of lives. Across the US, “500-year” storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually.
In his new book, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, journalist David Wallace-Wells chronicles how these events are only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable – and other parts horribly inhospitable – by the end of this century.
On February 19th, join the New America Fellows Program, Future Tense, and New America NYC for a conversation with David Wallace-Wells and Bina Venkataraman about the far-reaching impacts of climate change and steps environmentalists, policy makers and citizens can take to impede short-term threats and build long-term strategies for resilience.
Follow the conversation online using #UninhabitableEarth and by following @NAFellows, @FutureTenseNow, and @NewAmericaNYC.
This event has reached capacity, but you may email nyc@newamerica.org to join the wait list.
SPEAKERS
David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells
2019 National Fellow
Author, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Columnist and deputy editor at New York Magazine
Bina Venkataraman @binajv
2016 National Fellow and 2017 Future Tense Fellow
Author, The Optimist's Telescope (August, 2019)
Director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT
Copies of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming will be available for purchase.
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