Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. The bigwigs at the United Nations

wrap up their climate summit in Dubai this week, known as COP28. I've been keeping an ear on some of the

coverage, and it's easy to feel a bit disconnected, A, from what's at stake, and B, from what I can do about climate change as just

some guy who didn't get an invite to the UN summit.

That's why we wanted to bring you this interview from 2019, between NPR's Rachel Martin

and writer David Wallace Wells talking about his book, The Uninhabitable Earth.

In the interview, he breaks down exactly what we mean when we talk about his book, The Uninhabitable Earth. In the interview, he breaks on exactly

what we mean when we talk about climate change, and it's worrying and scary, but then they

get to talking about how do we process it all as human beings who'd prefer to just keep our heads

in the sand. Here's the interview after the break.

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Author David Wallace Wells opens his new book, The Uninhabitable Earth, outlining three

misunderstandings about climate change. First, its speed.

More than half of all of the fossil fuel emissions

that we've ever put into the atmosphere

have come in the last 25 years,

which means that we've now done more damage to the climate

than in all of the millennia before, in all of the centuries before.

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