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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

"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 possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, ""500-year"" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually.This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century.In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await--food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today.Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, The Uninhabitable Earth is both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and 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 generation."
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Sakhi Gundeti Reviewed on: 02-01-2022
In depth insight on climate change

-A couple of pages into the book, Wallace-Wells drenches you in climate anxiety; he has good reasons to do so. Heat waves, sea-level rise, hunger, wildfires are some of the crises we face today due to climate change and are likely to face worse versions of, in near future. - He talks about the inequality of climate change effects - how the countries most responsible for it are likely to face fewer adversities. Countries along the equator will be worst hit and unfortunately these include underdeveloped and developing nations. - Climate change isn't merely an ecological crisis; it's far-reaching and influences every sphere of life. I found this to be quite horrifying. - The data in the book can sometimes be overwhelming, and boring, too, but it forms the basis of everything that the book claims. - As somebody who's already concerned about the ecological crises we're facing, I found this book to be insightful, focusing on dimensions I hadn't come across before. Overall, The Uninhabitable Earth is an interesting read for anyone trying to learn more about climate change