David Wallace-Wells is Deputy editor and climate columnist for New York magazine. His book "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming" is available now.
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david so first of all thanks for doing this oh my pleasure i'm excited how much trouble are we in
legitimately i mean it's pretty bad already and it's gonna get i think a lot lot worse so it's
not bad right now right here it's raining it seems nice out the hills i mean how long ago were the
fires right right around i got evacuated this october yeah it was rough but in all fairness
i've been evacuated three times over the past 20 years yeah i know the fires california's fires
are kind of interesting in that um they both seem like it's like the future of the apocalypse they're
here but also it's so familiar from like decades of wildfires um but you know there's scientific
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