It's 2019, and there's a book on Adam McKay's nightstand called The Uninhabitable Earth.

As you can guess, the book is not cheerful.

Not exactly the bedtime reading material you'd expect, from the man who used to be head

writer at SNL, co-founded the website Funny or Die, and wrote and directed movies like

Step Brothers and Anchorman.

Reading all about the consequences of global warming filled Adam with dread.

I think the scale and horror of what a radically warned atmosphere is going to do to us and

the way that David Wallace Wells wrote about it so specifically was truly jarring.

We're screwed and we're screwed much faster than everyone thought.

Adam is not alone in the bedroom.

His wife of 22 years, director Shira Pivin, would very much like to go to sleep.

Right before bed he would just start to talk about how bad the climate is.

He would get so agitated that I would feel like, did I, is it my fault because he need

me to change the climate?

When Adam read the latest United Nations report on climate change, the facts about our

coming planetary collapse were so dire that he did not sleep for two days.

As much as Shira loves her husband and admires his obsessions, she got tired of hearing

his fears.

Like a lot of us just feel like we're so overwhelmed, we don't know how to manage these feelings,

this world, we're just going to like find a little niche.

And the way that Adam's mind seems to work is like kind of what his superpower is that

some tiny part of him is like, okay, I can do something really big.

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