We arent doomed by climate change. Right now we are choosing to be doomed.
New York Magazine has stirred up a firestorm of debate by publishing a worst-case scenario for climate change this week, The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells.
Responses range from Mashables Do not accept New York Mags climate change doomsday scenario, to climatologist Michael Manns critical Facebook post, to Slates New York Magazines global-warming horror story isnt too scary. Its not scary enough.
The debate hinges on whether the piece goes too far in scaring people about the worst possible effects of climate change, or is justified considering the stakes. Since Wallace-Wells quotes my recent primer Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know and since I have long maintained that plausible worst-case climate scenarios deserve vastly more attention than they receive I will share my thoughts.
https://thinkprogress.org/climate-change-doomsday-scenario-80d28affef2e