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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
With a new afterword
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possiblefood shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.
An epoch-defining book (The Guardian) and this generations Silent Spring (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through itthe ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress.
The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generationtodays.
Praise for The Uninhabitable Earth
The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming Manjoo, The New York Times
Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wellss outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, Economist
Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the eerily banal language of climatology in favor of lush, rolling Szalai, The New York Times
The book has potential to be this generations Silent Washington Post
The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this Weisman, The New York Review of Books
Author: David Wallace-Wells
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 03/17/2020
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780525576716
Language: English
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