Journalist and Author
David Wallace-Wells is an American journalist and columnist at The New York Times, known for his writing on climate change. His 2017 essay "The Uninhabitable Earth" became the most read article in the history of New York Magazine and was later expanded into an internationally bestselling book.
by David Wallace-Wells
A harrowing account of the cascading consequences of climate change, from heat death to economic collapse to civilizational unraveling. Wallace-Wells synthesizes the latest climate science into a vivid, urgent narrative about the near-future world we are building through inaction.
The books David Wallace-Wells references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Kolbert documents how human activity is driving a mass extinction event comparable to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Species are vanishing at a rate not seen in 65 million years, and we are the cause.
by Rachel Carson
Carson's 1962 expose revealed how pesticides were silently poisoning ecosystems and human health. The book launched the modern environmental movement and led to the DDT ban.
by Jared Diamond
Diamond investigates why some societies collapse while others endure, tracing destruction to environmental damage and failed group decision-making. The past warns the present.
by Donella Meadows
Meadows explains how systems, from economies to ecosystems, behave through feedback loops, stocks, and flows. Most interventions fail because we address symptoms rather than the underlying structure driving the problem.
Who David draws from, and who draws from David — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.