Release Date:- 2019-02-19
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ āThe Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.āāAndrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker ā¢ The New York Times Book Review ā¢ Time ā¢ NPR ā¢ The Economist ā¢ The Paris Review ā¢ Toronto Star ā¢ GQ ā¢ The Times Literary Supplement ā¢ The New York Public Library ā¢ Kirkus Reviews
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 possibleāfood shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.
An āepoch-defining bookā (The Guardian) and āthis generationās Silent Springā (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 itāthe 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 generationātodayās.
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
āThe 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 planet.āāFarhad Manjoo, The New York Times
āRiveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wellsās outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.āāThe Economist
āPotent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the āeerily banal language of climatologyā in favor of lush, rolling prose.āāJennifer Szalai, The New York Times
āThe book has potential to be this generationās Silent Spring.āāThe Washington Post
āThe Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.āāAlan Weisman, The New York Review of Books