Hurricane Maria's legacy: how the rise of nationalism creates climate victims

Speaking in Puerto Rico at the International Congress of Youth Voices, David Wallace-Wells warns the the devastation could be routinely replicated - but youth activism offers hope

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Puerto Rico's ongoing struggles to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Maria could be routinely replicated in other places if the climate crisis spurs nationalistic governments to scale back aid to certain disaster victims.

That's a warning from bestselling author David Wallace-Wells, whose book The Uninhabitable Earth was described in a Guardian review as a "brutal portrait of climate change".