David Wallace-Wells The Uninhabitable Earth Summary
Carbon, the fourth most abundant element in the universe, fabricates life on earth. Its complex versatility condemns these creations to destruction. Carbon's disastrous course dates back to 252 million years ago; the temperature of the planet rose five degrees causing the release of methane from the artic. This incident left 97 percent of all life on earth dead, broadcasting that what is created can be destroyed. Carbon's malicious path did not end all those years ago, but instead it continues to destroy the earth and everything it inhabits. In the article "The Uninhabitable Earth", the author David Wallace-Wells does an excellent job of showing what the horrific outcome of the plant will be. However, he fails to address the tremendous effort
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They were created in heats up to three times more than a human can withstand. In fact, moving around outside when its more than 105 degrees Fahrenheit is lethal within hours. Chicago and Milwaukee have both experienced this heat, that can cook the body from the inside out. Places across the globe are beating this record as the planet begins to boil. Wallace-Wells includes these heart-wrenching observations in an attempt to show the reader what is truly at stake. He is directly targeting the readers emotions allowing them to view climate change at the velocity that he believes it should be. At 11 degrees of warming more than half of the world's population would die of direct heat. Even 4 degrees of warming would make the deadly European heat wave of 2003, that killed over 2,000 people, a normal summer. Unbearable heat coupled with extreme drought causes dehydration across the world; that often times ends in kidney failure, leaving patients with weeks to live without the treatments that they simply cannot afford. Wallace-Wells presents a great point of diseases that arise from planet warming, a conclusion that most would not come to by themselves. These rising temperatures may not seem to affect the entire population; however, a warmer planet shortens life expectancy by up to ten years. This quantitative observation is an insight into the magnitude of what the earth is
They were created in heats up to three times more than a human can withstand. In fact, moving around outside when its more than 105 degrees Fahrenheit is lethal within hours. Chicago and Milwaukee have both experienced this heat, that can cook the body from the inside out. Places across the globe are beating this record as the planet begins to boil. Wallace-Wells includes these heart-wrenching observations in an attempt to show the reader what is truly at stake. He is directly targeting the readers emotions allowing them to view climate change at the velocity that he believes it should be. At 11 degrees of warming more than half of the world's population would die of direct heat. Even 4 degrees of warming would make the deadly European heat wave of 2003, that killed over 2,000 people, a normal summer. Unbearable heat coupled with extreme drought causes dehydration across the world; that often times ends in kidney failure, leaving patients with weeks to live without the treatments that they simply cannot afford. Wallace-Wells presents a great point of diseases that arise from planet warming, a conclusion that most would not come to by themselves. These rising temperatures may not seem to affect the entire population; however, a warmer planet shortens life expectancy by up to ten years. This quantitative observation is an insight into the magnitude of what the earth is