“more than half of the carbon exhaled into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has been emitted in just the past three decades. Which means we have done as much damage to the fate of the planet and its ability to sustain human life and civilization since Al Gore published his first book on climate than in all the centuries—all the millennia—that came before.”

Wallace-Wells, David (2019-02-18T22:58:59). The Uninhabitable Earth . Crown/Archetype. Kindle Edition.