So, how bad is it, really?

Unpacking the mess(aging) of climate change

T. J. Brearton
ILLUMINATION
Published in
9 min readDec 15, 2022

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It is much, much worse than you think.

That’s the beginning of The Uninhabitable Earth, the 2019 book by David Wallace-Wells.

He writes:

“The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all…”

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T. J. Brearton
ILLUMINATION

I’m passionate about the environment, plant-based cooking, philosophy, and mental health. I write thriller novels for a living. Top writer in Climate Change