The Uninhabitable Earth Summary

Climate change will be the end of this world as we know it, according to David Wallace-Wells, the author of “The Uninhabitable Earth,” an article which has spread through this country in something of a frenzy. Wallace-Wells’ article is fast-paced with alarmist tactics to target readers who believe they are in sync with the dangers of climate change, or those who may be on the fence about whether there is enough evidence to support the prevention movement.
Wallace-Wells grows his credibility with facts that he has researched or gathered from interviewing many scientists of their respective field. He tells the reader who he was talking to and exactly what information he was given. Wallace-Wells elaborates and gives many examples of how climate change has been scientifically proven, and how it has affected our day to day life. Wallace-Wells also brings in information from our earth’s history to suggest that the mass extinctions and climate patterns we have had in the past are circulating to the forefront of our
This tactic, however, may come at a cost, because he is holding readers accountable for the dying world and they don’t want to hear that they are a big part of the problem. The article is all doom and gloom with no shimmers of hope anywhere, so readers make the assumption that if climate change has escalated quickly and there is no time to reverse it, then why all the fuss? It could be perceived that Wallace-Wells’ approach for this article was extravagant and unnecessary, however he was just trying to use a level of horror to match the level of reality that consequences of climate change have. The alarmist tone of this article is the reason that many readers discarded it, yet it became the main reason for its wide circulation, and ultimate