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Slate Money

The Uninhabitable Earth Edition

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Investing

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Slate Money, David Wallace-Wells joins Emily, Felix, and Anna to discuss his new book "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming” and, frankly, freak everyone out about global warming. In the Slate Plus segment: Aerosols and other geoengineering. Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas,@EmilyRPeck Podcast production by Jessamine Molli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello! Hello and welcome to the Unhabitable Earth edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and

0:22.0

Fly that's news of the what century millennium.

0:26.0

Poor Emily is Emily how would you characterize this episode on the scale from like one to happy?

0:34.4

It's like one to apocalypse. I think I'm at apocalypse right now.

0:37.2

We're at apocalypse. We have, I am Felix Salmon of Axios Emily Peck of the Huffington Post is also here.

0:44.6

Hello.

0:45.6

Hello and Anna Schmanski.

0:46.6

Hello.

0:47.6

And most importantly we have David Wallace Wells of New York magazine.

0:51.5

Thank you. And you have with me. written, I should say hi, I guess.

0:55.0

You should say, and you should say, and you've written like the one text that everyone needs to read to

1:00.3

understand like the catastrophe that awaits us. It is called

1:04.4

The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming. And we are going to be talking a lot

1:08.4

about the book. We are going to be talking a lot about the Green New Deal and whether it can prevent the catastrophes that

1:16.5

you outline in the book.

1:18.9

And we are also going to be talking about immigration and refugees and whether you can solve the refugee crisis with

1:26.8

immigration policies. All of that and more is coming up on slate money.

1:33.0

David Wallace Wells, you have a best-selling book,

1:36.7

which is scaring the fuck out of everyone who's reading it,

1:40.4

and even some people who aren't.

1:42.3

What is it called?

1:43.0

And should we be terrified?

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