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Episode: Recode Decode: "The Uninhabitable Earth" author David Wallace-Wells
Description: Journalist David Wallace-Wells talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about his new book, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming.In this episode: How Wallace-Wells got to writing about climate change; common misconceptions about it; âweâve made no progress at allâ on clean energy use; his first story about global warming; the ripple effects and âall-encompassing threatâ of warming around the world; todayâs storms are literally unprecedented; why Silicon Valley has invested little into solutions; apocalypse bunkers and escaping to space; theoretical solutions on Earth that we could undertake right now; Bill Gates and Elon Musk; âwe need a million...