The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

by David Wallace-Wells

Book Overview

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker - The New York Times Book Review - Time - NPR - The Economist - The Paris Review - Toronto Star - GQ - The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525576703
• ISBN13: 9780525576709
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Tim Duggan Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

If this book doesn’t work as a wake up call ...

... nothing will. While the author is optimistic about human’s ability to respond to climate change (eventually? sooner or later?), I am not. Reading his well-reasoned chapters, what emerges clearly is that the necessary changes in human behavior to significantly respond to climate change issues - to really make a difference and HALT the dire direction to which we are steering the world around us - are political. Thus, individuals who earnestly and proudly recycle, eschew disposable shopping bags, etc., won’t really make a difference. It’s a bit like being on a train hurtling toward an abyss and, instead of stopping the train, you’re rearranging pillows and blankets. This book should be read by every elected and appointed official.