The Uninhabitable Earth
Categories: Science & Math
David Wallace-Wells argues that the effects of global warming go far beyond rising seas. Expanding his 2017 New York magazine essay, his 2019 book sets out what a hotter planet could bring by the end of this century without deep changes in how people live. Wallace-Wells moves through heat, hunger and wildfire to climate refugees, then considers how warming could reshape politics, culture and our sense of history. He frames the crisis as one that a single generation has the power to limit.
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- Vinod Khosla
- Shane Parrish: “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.”
- David Heinemeier Hansson: “If you read The Uninhabitable Earth by Wallace-Wells or Hickel's Less Is More in isolation (two books I've highly recommended!), you'll almost certainly come away in both a state of panic and with a passion of #degrowth.”