The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

#1Â NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ â€œThe Uninhabitable EarthÂ hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.â€â€”Andrew Solomon, author ofÂ The Noonday Demon

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 possibleâ€”food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.

An â€œepoch-defining bookâ€ (The Guardian) and â€œthis generationâ€™s Silent Springâ€ (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable EarthÂ is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through itâ€”the 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 generationâ€”todayâ€™s.

Praise for The Uninhabitable Earth

â€œThe Uninhabitable EarthÂ 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 planet.â€â€”Farhad Manjoo,Â The New York Times

â€œRiveting. . . .Â Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wellsâ€™s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.â€â€”The Economist

â€œPotent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the â€˜eerily banal language of climatologyâ€™ in favor of lush, rolling prose.â€â€”Jennifer Szalai,Â The New York Times

â€œThe book has potential to be this generationâ€™sÂ Silent Spring.â€â€”The Washington Post

â€œThe Uninhabitable Earth,Â which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.â€â€”Alan Weisman,Â The New York Review of Books
Country USA
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2019-02-19
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2019-02-19
Format	Kindle eBook

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

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