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  • Fiction Pairing: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
  • How it Fits: Both titles offer bleak projections of the future, with The Uninhabitable Earth discussing worst-case climate scenarios and Parable of the Sower depicting a dystopian society ravaged by environmental collapse. The two titles share a vision of the catastrophic consequences of inaction on climate change.



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David Wallace-Wells

David Wallace-Wells is a national fellow at the New America foundation and a columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine. He was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. He lives in New York City.Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan



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