David Wallace-Wells

David Wallace-Wells is the author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. He is a columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine, and The Uninhabitable Earth is expanded from an article he wrote for that publication. He is the former deputy editor of The Paris Review, and he is currently a national fellow at the New America Foundation.

Al Gore

Al Gore (1948-) served as the Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 and was the Democratic nominee for President in 2000, losing to George W. Bush. He is a longtime advocate for global emissions reduction and a 2006 documentary on his campaign to educate people about the subject, An Inconvenient Truth, is widely credited with raising international public awareness about global warming and climate change. Wallace-Wells cites the documentary as a landmark within that public awareness but also suggests that it pop cultural prominence has...