Why Climate Change is Worse Than You Think with David Wallace-Wells
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Climate change is not moving as slowly as we’d like to think. In fact, half of all the damage done through burning fossil fuels has been just over the last 30 years. Unfortunately, every year is now more damaging than the last. The good news is that we are not at a point of no return. While we will never have the same climate we had before industrialization, we can make a positive impact on the future of climate change by taking action now.
My guest on this week’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy is here to tell us how. David Wallace-Wells is the deputy editor of New York magazine and the author of the international bestseller The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, published in February 2019, which the New York Times called both "brilliant" and "the most terrifying book I have ever read." While the real truth about climate change can be scary, it’s a more important conversation than ever. Throughout our talk, David shares the history of climate change and the three major issues at hand: speed, scope, and severity.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of the Doctors Pharmacy. |
| 0:03.0 | No matter how hot it gets, it will always be up to us to determine the climate future of the planet, |
| 0:07.9 | and that will be done by how much carbon we emit. |
| 0:14.8 | Welcome to the Doctors Pharmacy. This is Dr. Mark Hyman. This is a place for conversations that |
| 0:20.0 | matter. And I believe today's conversation matters to all of us whether we like it or not, |
| 0:24.4 | because it's about climate change. And we have today with us an extraordinary guest, |
| 0:27.6 | David Wallace Wells, who's a deputy editor of the New York magazine and the author of the |
| 0:31.8 | International Best Seller, the uninhabitable Earth Life After Warming, which is published in |
| 0:38.1 | February 2019. And I've read and it's a staggering book for someone who thinks are pretty well |
| 0:45.2 | informed. I really realized how little I knew about climate change before his book and the |
| 0:50.2 | New York magazine article that spawned it. There was a lack of real framing of this issue |
| 0:57.7 | in a coherent way where you understood all the pieces and threats. It wasn't just a bit of news |
| 1:03.8 | here, a bit of news there. There's 500 tornadoes in 30 days or there's California wildfires. |
| 1:09.9 | There's five hurricanes that were the worst hurricanes in history in the last, you know, |
| 1:14.3 | a couple of years. I mean, those are the things we hear about, but we don't put the whole |
| 1:17.1 | story together. So we're going to tell that story today. It's a terrifying book. Hopefully it'll |
| 1:21.7 | inspire us to action. Maybe it'll inspire governments and politicians to action. And I'm really |
| 1:26.6 | glad you're here having this conversation with us in New York, which may be partly underwater soon. |
| 1:32.7 | Thanks for being here. Oh, my pleasure. Great to talk to you. So this article you wrote |
| 1:37.3 | in the New York magazine went viral and it really impacted me because you laid out the |
| 1:44.0 | costs of doing nothing and the impact of what's already in play and the fact that we have |
| 1:51.4 | strikingly caused most of the carbon in the environment, the striving climate change in the last |
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