David Wallace-Wells, deputy editor at New York magazine and author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming will give a keynote lecture at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, October 16th in Brendle Recital Hall. Copies of The Uninhabitable Earth will be available for purchase and signing after the lecture. The event is free and open to the public. Click here to reserve your seat now.
From the poster from the Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES) and the Office of Sustainability:
“How will the catastrophic effects of climate change continue to shape, and be shaped by, our ecological systems, politics, and communities? How can we have hope in the face of it all?
Wallace-Wells reached widespread acclaim when his 2017 New York magazine cover story “The Uninhabitable Earth” went viral, alerting readers to the very real, very near effects of climate change. His book of the same title, published in 2019, became an instant New York Times bestseller.
Wallace-Wells is a celebrated journalist who calls on the humanities to add a much-needed focus on storytelling to expose the geopolitical and economic consequences of warming. In his keynote lecture he will examine how public sentiment and political action are changing much faster than anyone might have predicted.”