He is married to Risa Needleman.[8] The couple has two children.[9]
Career
Wallace-Wells' work has appeared in New York magazine, where he is an editor-at-large.[10][11] He also writes for The Guardian.[12] He was a 2019 National Fellow at New America.[13] On July 17, 2019, Wallace-Wells appeared on an episode of The Doctor's Farmacy, a video produced by functional medicine practitioner Mark Hyman.[14]
Climate writing
Since 2017, Wallace-Wells has written extensively about climate change in New York magazine. He has said that he is optimistic about the earth's environmental future, but he remains cautious. He has said that no matter the degree of environmental damage, "it will always be the case that the next decade could contain more warming, and more suffering, or less warming and less suffering."[15]
His best known work is "The Uninhabitable Earth", an article published July 9, 2017 in New York magazine.[16] The essay received mixed to negative criticism from many scientists,[17][18] but was considered an impactful work by some reviewers.[19][20] Wallace-Wells later turned the work into a full-length book of the same name, published in 2019. Both works are characterized by speculation regarding climate change's potential to dramatically impact human life, which Wallace-Wells describes in "meticulous and terrifying detail."[21]
Writing in The Guardian in 2021, Wallace‑Wells argues that the scale of climate change adaptation required globally is unprecedented. Indeed, Wallace‑Wells opines that "the world's vanguard infrastructure is failing in today's climate, which is the most benign we will ever see again".[22]