Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. I have neglected recommending books of late. But I recently finished @dwallacewells tour de force, The Uninhabitable Earth, a sober, balanced and terrifying depiction of the damage climate change is already causing, and how bad it could get...
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@dwallacewells 2...Wallace-Wells is extremely informative - his endnotes are almost unbelievable - but also dismisses falsehoods, making his descriptions of reality all the more terrifying. He largely avoids the politics, focusing instead on the science. However, he does note how the GOP has...

@dwallacewells 3...has gone from saying "there is no climate change" to "the climate is always changing." Both arguments are still made, and Wallace-Wells makes a point I never considered: For those who say the climate is always changing, what difference does their argument make? More....

@dwallacewells 4...important, as you read of the devastation already underway, and the magnitude of how bad it might become, it is impossible not to step back and say "How can anyone be so certain the science is wrong, with no counter-science, that they are willing to risk this outcome?....

@dwallacewells 5...Wallace-Wells's masterwork is particularly important today, as we watched a senator use pictures of dinosaurs and cartoon characters to blithely dismiss decades of evidence, produced by scientists, corporations and governments worldwide. To just say "It's fake!" with...

@dwallacewells 6...nothing to back it up is incomprehensible. The world Wallace-Wells depicts will be that of our children, grandchildren and on and on. The most depressing thought he delves into is this: Perhaps we are not meant to survive our own ignorance, and intelligent species die out...

@dwallacewells 7....when their ability to comprehend the impact of technology on the globe is overwhelmed by the enormity of the topic. I cannot understand why anyone would take this risk, blowing off science out of convenience. To a large degree, it is already too late - even if we stopped...

@dwallacewells 8...the production of all carbon, methane and other climate warmers, all we can do is limit the impact. Like a speeding locomotive, the problem will take a long long time to stop. Our willingness to blow it off, to refuse to face the issue....

@dwallacewells 9...to allow college dropouts to ridicule the top scientists, creates an overwhelming sense of dismay.

I hope, I pray that the science is wrong, but - just like when Republicans argued that smoking doesn't cause cancer because lobbyists said so - I know that it is....

@dwallacewells 10...us Baby Boomers, can never apologize enough for the arrogance that allowed us to blithely inflict this on our children.

Read @dwallacewells book, The Uninhabitable Earth. First cry. Then get angry. Then act. The earth will survive. We may not. amazon.com/Uninhabitable-…