About the book
Rising seas are only the start of the climate threat, according to David Wallace-Wells, who lays out a near future of economic devastation, refugee emergencies, food shortages and climate wars. He frames the book as both a travelogue of that future and a meditation on how warming may reshape politics, technology, nature, capitalism and the idea of human progress. Everyday effects appear, from threats to coffee and chocolate supplies to likely tens of millions of pollution deaths and hundreds of millions probably fleeing overheated homelands. It doubles as a call to action, placing the duty to avert catastrophe on the current generation. The book expands a long-form New York magazine article that became the magazine's most-read piece ever.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Kolbert praised it, agreeing that climate impacts will be far graver than most people realize, and Jonathan Safran Foer said its clear and often funny writing makes the details of the crisis deeply felt. Shane Parrish of Farnam Street featured it in his Brain Food newsletter as a science-based portrait of how lives are likely to change.
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This book has 3 recommendations
Shane Parrish (Founder/Farnam Street Blog)
I don't know a lot about climate change, but I'm interested in learning more in this big gnarly topic. Wallace-Wells offers a potential portrait of what could happen, using science to show us how our lives will almost inevitably change. He also explores possibilities for what living in this new world could do to politics, our economy, our health, etc. While outcomes are impossible to know with any precision, the path seems clear.
Jonathan Safran Foer (Author)
Most of us know the gist, if not the details, of the climate change crisis. And yet it is almost impossible to sustain strong feelings about it. David Wallace-Wells has now provided the details, and with writing that is not only clear and forceful, but often imaginative and even funny, he has found a way to make the information deeply felt.
Elizabeth Kolbert (Pulitzer-Prize winning author)
David Wallace-Wells argues that the impacts of climate change will be much graver than most people realize, and he's right. The Uninhabitable Earth is a timely and provocative work.
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