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Climate change: ‘It is worse, much worse, than you think’
IAN SINCLAIR interviews deputy editor of New York Magazine DAVID WALLACE-WELLS on his terrifying new book

“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.

David Wallace-Wells

“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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