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The Coronavirus Is a Preview of Our Climate-Change Future – Council on the Uncertain Human Future
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The Coronavirus Is a Preview of Our Climate-Change Future

The Coronavirus Is a Preview of Our Climate-Change Future 4.8.2020
David Wallace-Wells
Read more in New York Magazine

“Although, as far as we know, “COVID-19 is not a climate-change pandemic,” it is “a “terrifying harbinger” of numerous viral and bacterial diseases humans will likely confront in the future in new outbreaks the article describes in detail, “new pandemics that will be brought about if climate change continues to so deeply destabilize the natural world: scrambling ecosystems, collapsing habitats, rewiring wildlife, and rewriting the rules that have governed all life on this planet for all of human history.”

David Wallace-Wells is a deputy editor of New York Magazine, where he published, in 2017, a groundbreaking essay, “The Uninhabitable Earth.” He expanded it into a 2019 book of the same title. This article is adapted from that book.