The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells

If the world's most conspicuous emitters, the top 10 percent, reduced their emissions to only the EU average, total global emissions would fall by 35 percent. We won't get there through the dietary choices of individuals, but through policy changes.

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