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“IT is worse, much worse, than you think.” So begins The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future, David Wallace-Wells’s brilliant new book on the existential threat of climate change which, judging by its frightening contents, should be placed next to Stephen King in the horror section of every bookshop.
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“I don’t come to it with a life of attachment to environmental causes,” Wallace-Wells, 36, tells me when I ask him about his initial interest in the subject when we met in a central London hotel last month.
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