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ISBN
9780525576709
Book Title
Uninhabitable Earth : Life after Warming
Publisher
Crown/Archetype
Item Length
9.6 in
Publication Year
2019
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
David Wallace-Wells
Genre
Nature, Political Science, Science
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ecology, Global Warming & Climate Change, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Item Width
5.8 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Publisher
Crown/Archetype
ISBN-10
0525576703
ISBN-13
9780525576709
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27038741632

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Book Title
Uninhabitable Earth : Life after Warming
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ecology, Global Warming & Climate Change, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Nature, Political Science, Science
Author
David Wallace-Wells
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
5.8 in

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2018-051268
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" The 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. . . . Wallace-Wells's imagine-the-worst approach has become prescient. . . . I read it with an unfolding mix of horror and hopelessness, the way you might learn of a terminal diagnosis that affects yourself and your family and everyone else you might ever hope to know." -- Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times "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. This is a profound book, which simultaneously makes me terrified and hopeful about the future, ashamed and proud of being a human." --Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated "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." --Elizabeth Kolbert , author of The Sixth Extinction "One of the very few books about our climate change emergency that doesn't sugarcoat the horror." --William T. Vollmann, author of No Immediate Danger "Powerfully argued. . . . A masterly analysis of why--with a world of solutions--we choose doom." -- Nature "This gripping, terrifying, furiously readable book is possibly the most wide-ranging account yet written of the ways in which climate change will transform every aspect of our lives, ranging from where we live to what we eat and the stories we tell. Essential reading for our ever-more-unfamiliar and unpredictable world." --Amitav Ghosh , author of Flood of Fire "If we don't want our grandchildren to curse us, we had better read this book." --Timothy Snyder , author of Black Earth "Trigger warning: when scientists conclude that yesterday's worst-case scenario for global warming is probably unwarranted optimism, it's time to ask Scotty to beam you up. At least that was my reaction upon finishing Wallace-Wells' brilliant and unsparing analysis of a nightmare that is no longer a distant future but our chaotic, burning present. Unlike other writers who speak about human agency in the abstract, he zeros in on the power structures and capitalist elites whose mindless greed is writing an obituary for our grandchildren." --Mike Davis , author of Ecology of Fear "A lucid and thorough description of our unprecedented crisis, and of the mechanisms of denial with which we seek to avoid its fullest recognition." --William Gibson , author of Neuromancer "David Wallace-Wells has produced a willfully terrifying polemic that reads like a cross between Stephen King and Stephen Hawking. The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon. Written with verve and insight and an eerie gusto for its own horrors, it comes just when we need it; it could not be more urgent than it is at this moment. I hope everyone will read it and be afraid." --Andrew Solomon , author of The Noonday Demon, "David Wallace-Wells has produced a willfully terrifying polemic that reads like a cross between Stephen King and Stephen Hawking. The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending armageddon. Written with verve and insight and an eerie gusto for its own horrors, it comes just when we need it; it could not be more urgent than it is at this moment. I hope everyone will read it and be afraid." --Andrew Solomon "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." --Elizabeth Kolbert "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. This is a profound book, which simultaneously makes me terrified and hopeful about the future, ashamed and proud of being a human." --Jonathan Safran Foer "One of the very few books about our climate change emergency that doesn't sugarcoat the horror." --William Vollmann "This gripping, terrifying, furiously readable book is possibly the most wide-ranging account yet written of the ways in which climate change will transform every aspect of our lives, ranging from where we live to what we eat and the stories we tell. Essential reading for our ever-more-unfamiliar and unpredictable world." --Amitav Ghosh "If we don't want our grandchildren to curse us, we had better read this book." --Timothy Snyder "Trigger warning: when scientists conclude that yesterday's worst-case scenario for global warming is probably unwarranted optimism, it's time to ask Scotty to beam you up. At least that was my reaction upon finishing Wallace-Wells' brilliant and unsparing analysis of a nightmare that is no longer a distant future but our chaotic, burning present." --Mike Davis "A lucid and thorough description of our unprecedented crisis, and of the mechanisms of denial with which we seek to avoid its fullest recognition." --William Gibson, A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS'' CHOICE "Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ''eerily banal language of climatology'' in favor of lush, rolling prose." -- Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "The book has potential to be this generation''s Silent Spring ." --The Washington Post "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." --Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated "A brilliant new book. . . . a remorseless, near-unbearable account of what we are doing to our planet." -- John Lanchester, The New York Times Book Review "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." --Elizabeth Kolbert , author of The Sixth Extinction "An excellent book. . . . Not since Bill McKibben''s The End of Nature thirty years ago have we been told what climate change will mean in such vivid terms." -- Fred Pearce, The Washington Post "One of the very few books about our climate change emergency that doesn''t sugarcoat the horror." --William T. Vollmann, author of No Immediate Danger "Powerfully argued. . . . A masterly analysis of why--with a world of solutions--we choose doom." -- Nature "This gripping, terrifying, furiously readable book is possibly the most wide-ranging account yet written of the ways in which climate change will transform every aspect of our lives, ranging from where we live to what we eat and the stories we tell. Essential reading for our ever-more-unfamiliar and unpredictable world." --Amitav Ghosh , author of Flood of Fire "Urgent and humane. . . . Wallace-Wells is an extremely adept storyteller. . . . A horrifying assessment of what we might expect as a result of climate change if we don''t change course." -- Susan Matthews, Slate "If we don''t want our grandchildren to curse us, we had better read this book." --Timothy Snyder , author of Black Earth "Lively. . . . Vivid. . . . If you''ve snoozed through or turned away from the climate change news, this book will waken and update you. If you''re steeped in the unfolding climate drama, Wallace-Wells''s voice and perspective will be stimulating." -- David George Haskell, The Guardian "Beautifully written. . . . As climate change encroaches, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells spares no detail in explaining how." -- Kate Aronoff, Bookforum "Relentless, angry journalism of the highest order. Read it and, for the lack of any more useful response, weep." -- Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times "A brilliant and unsparing analysis of a nightmare that is no longer a distant future but our chaotic, burning present. Unlike other writers who speak about human agency in the abstract, Wallace-Wells zeros in on the power structures and capitalist elites whose mindless greed is writing an obituary for our grandchildren." --Mike Davis , author of Ecology of Fear "A lucid and thorough description of our unprecedented crisis, and of the mechanisms of denial with which we seek to avoid its fullest recognition." --William Gibson , author of Neuromancer "David Wallace-Wells has produced a willfully terrifying polemic that reads like a cross between Stephen King and Stephen Hawking. Written with verve and insight and an eerie gusto for its own horrors, it comes just when we need it; it could not be more urgent than it is at this moment. I hope everyone will read it and be afraid." --Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon, "David Wallace-Wells has produced a willfully terrifying polemic that reads like a cross between Stephen King and Neil deGrasse Tyson. The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending armageddon. Written with verve and insight and an eerie gusto for its own horrors, it comes just when we need it; it could not be more urgent than it is at this moment. I hope everyone will read it and be afraid." --Andrew Solomon "This gripping, terrifying, furiously readable book is possibly the most wide-ranging account yet written of the ways in which climate change will transform every aspect of our lives, ranging from where we live to what we eat and the stories we tell. Essential reading for our ever-more-unfamiliar and unpredictable world." --Amitav Ghosh
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#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 Times Literary Supplement - The New York Public Library - 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 possible--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An "epoch-defining book" ( The Guardian ) and "this generation's Silent Spring " ( 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 it--the 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 generation--today's. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD "The 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." --Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times "Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too." -- The Economist "Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the 'eerily banal language of climatology' in favor of lush, rolling prose." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "The book has potential to be this generation's Silent Spring ." --The Washington Post " The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book." --Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books, #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 Times Literary Supplement * The New York Public Library * 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 possible--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An "epoch-defining book" ( The Guardian ) and "this generation's Silent Spring " ( 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 it--the 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 generation--today's. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD "The 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." --Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times "Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too." -- The Economist "Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the 'eerily banal language of climatology' in favor of lush, rolling prose." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "The book has potential to be this generation's Silent Spring ." --The Washington Post " The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book." --Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books, #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 YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 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--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An "epoch-defining book" ( The Guardian ) and "this generation's Silent Spring " ( 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 it--the 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 generation--today's. Praise for The Uninhabitable Earth "The 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." --Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times "Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too." --The Economist "Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the 'eerily banal language of climatology' in favor of lush, rolling prose." --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times "The book has potential to be this generation's Silent Spring ." --The Washington Post " The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book." --Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books
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  • Top favorable review

    Highly recommended. You'll read it in two days.

    We are headed into territory with no solid knowledge of what the final result will be. Wallace Wells lays out the possibilities- and the horrors of our stupidity. Excellent read. For example, he lays out the greed and stupidity of the fossil fuel companies, whose leaders and stockholders are happy to risk catastrophe as long as their portfolios grow. We need to stop them in their tracks. Wallace Wells holds nothing back. Time to fact the most important danger that is out there, and staring us in the face.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: sk1drowbooks

  • Top critical review

    Format makes it too hard to see the words.

    Not in a format that is easy to read , you can't get the words bigger; if you do you lose the end of the sentence and that's a problem. It is single space, very hard to look at. It's not kindle version.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: jhDhjUnUTH-@Deleted

  • The Uninhabitable Earth; life on earth after our apathy

    I have two enduring philosophical problems with books like this. The first is that a barrage of mind-numbing (though certainly real, measurable and relevant) facts and statistics tend to lead to a near-fatal case of "paralysis of analysis" and, second, the facts and stories, as dire and horrifying as they are, are not dire and horrifying enough. The pages of the book written not that long ago, are already approaching obsolescence if not a charming, child-like optimism regarding both the immensity (and ever expanding and intrusive feedback loops) of climate change and the even more disheartening capability - if not capacity - of humans at any level to respond to it. That something as obvious - and measurable - and impactful - as weather should become a political issue will be a prevailing ...

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  • MAYHEM, NO KIDDING

    time to stop using coal and OIL!!!!!!! 12 years left before MAYHEM, NO KIDDING.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: archiecarlile643643

  • The sad state of our environment, and so few are willing to recognize it, let alone do much about it.

    Incredible reading, but be prepared to get depressed.

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