On the Cover of New York Magazine: The Case for Climate Reparations
 In our latest cover story, New York editor-at-large David Wallace-Wells confronts the moral catastrophe of climate change: The world's rich have put a trillion tons of carbon in the air, creating an existential threat to its poor, particularly those who live in the global South. With that understanding, he explores the real meaning of climate justice, how reparations might work, and the transformative science of carbon renewal.
"Climate justice has been a part of how I've thought about global warming since as long as I've been seriously thinking about it. But for years I'd hear — and even speak — the phrase 'those who've done the least will suffer most' and focused on those two parts: the fact that the world's poorest hadn't done much to bring about the climate crisis and that the most intense and punishing impacts of warming were nevertheless coming for them," Wallace-Wells says. "Only recently did I come to understand how much even that outwardly empathic phrasing elided the actual responsibility, which lay very heavily with the nations of the global North. It allowed those of us in that part of the world, horrified by what climate change might bring, to believe that those disasters and disruptions were beyond our control, without authors or engineers, almost like 'acts of God' had been in previous eras. But the responsibility for the climate crisis doesn't lie with 'humanity,' it lies with the global rich."
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