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The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future

Autor David Wallace-Wells
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 feb 2019
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Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by theSUNDAY TIMES,SPECTATORandNEW STATESMAN

'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this ... what this book forces you to face is more important than any other subject' David Sexton,Evening Standard

It is worse, much worse, than you think.

The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.

Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241355213
ISBN-10: 0241355214
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 156 x 240 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Allen Lane
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

David Wallace-Wellsis deputy editor of New York magazine, where he also writes frequently about climate change and the near future of science and technology. In July 2017 he published a cover story surveying the landscape of worst-case scenarios for global warming that became an immediate sensation, reaching millions of readers on its first day and, in less than a week, becoming the most-read story the magazine had ever published -and sparking an unprecedented debate, ongoing still today among scientists and journalists, about just how we should be thinking, and talking, about the planetary threat from climate change.

Recenzii

Incrystalline prose, Wallace-Wells provides a devastating overview of where we are in terms of climate crisis and ecological destruction, and what the future will hold if we keep on going down the same path.Urgently readable, this is an epoch-defining book.
'Clear, engaging and often dazzling'
'A masterly analysis'
Relentless, angry journalism of the highest order. Read it and, for the lack of any more useful response, weep. . . .The article was a sensation and the book will be, too.
The most terrifying book I have ever read. . . ameticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.
This is what I'm reading now:The Uninhabitable Earthby David Wallace-Wells. It focuses on the range of realistic possibilities with climate change. It does not sugarcoat, and can be quite scary -- that's without primarily focusing on the worstcase scenario.When people ask 'What can I do? - Read!What we need right now, in this country, is for all of us to be better, including ourselves.
A must-read. It's not only the grandkids and the kids: it's you. And it's not only those in other countries: it's you.
I've not stopped talking aboutThe Uninhabitable Earthsince I opened the first page. AndI want every single person on this planet to read it.
Riveting. . . Some readers will find Mr Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist.He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.
Skipping the scientific jargon and relaying the facts inurgent and elegant prose, the magazine editor craftsa stirring wake-up callto recognize how global warming will permanently alter every aspect of human life.
Wallace-Wells is anextremely adept storyteller, simultaneously urgent and humane. . . [he] does a terrifyingly good job of moving between the specific and the abstract.
Enough to induce an honest-to-God panic attack ... The margins of my review copy of the book are scrawled with expressions of terror and despair, declining in articulacy as the pages proceed, until it's all just cartoon sad faces and swear words ...To readThe Uninhabitable Earthis to understand the collapse of the distinction between alarmism and plain realism
There ismuch to learn from this book. From media and scientific reports of the past decade, Wallace-Wells sifts key predictions and conveys them invivid prose.
Brilliant... At the heart of Wallace-Wells's book is a remorseless, near-unbearable account of what we are doing to our planet
Not since Bill McKibben's "The End of Nature" 30 years ago have we been told what climate change will mean in such vivid terms.
Everyone shouldstop what they're doing and readThe Uninhabitable Earthby @dwallacewells. This is our future if we don't act now.
Wake up! Get educated -The Uninhabitable Earthby David Wallace Wells is a great place to start.
A book that's by turns alarming, terrifying and just downright bleak . . .a sustained piece of informed polemic.
Avery accessible and compellingread . . . a much morenuancedand a much morehopefulvision than you might expect.
I thinkeveryone should probably right now read David Wallace-Wells'sThe Uninhabitable Earth, which tells the grim story with as much optimism as possible, and which gives all the facts.
Well-written,captivating, occasionally wry and utterly petrifying
In hisgrippingnew book ... Wallace-Wellsshocksus out of complacency'
If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be [this] . . .What this book forces you to face is more important than any other subject you could be informing yourself about.
Exceptionally well researched and written. . . . This short, concise book pulls no punches.
Yes, this book will scare you, but it will alsoprompt you to take actionto ensure the damage we as humans have done to the planet is stopped.
Most of us known 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 onlyclear and forceful, but often imaginative and even funny, he has found a way to make the information deeply felt. This is aprofoundbook, which simultaneously makes meterrified and hopeful about the future, full of regret and new will.
Harrowing.
The Uninhabitable Earthhits you like a comet, with anoverflow of insanely lyrical proseabout our pending armageddon.
Just finished The Uninhabitable Earth by @dwallacewells.Everyone, everywhere, should read it. Can't remember the last time a book had such an impact on me.
On [Alexandra] Ocasio-Cortez's office bookshelf, near a picture of her late father and a photo of her with a local Girl Scout troop, two books nestle together in uneasy union. One is the Federalist papers. The other isThe Uninhabitable Earth.
If there are people around to write history books in the future, they will look back at the@ExtinctionRprotestors and think they were the sanest people of our time. ReadThe Uninhabitable Earthby@dwallacewellsif you don't know why.
If we don't want our grandchildren to curse us, we had better read this book.
David Wallace-Wells argues that the impacts of climate change will much graver than most people realize, and he's right.The Uninhabitable Earthis a timely and provocative work.
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.
A lucid and thorough description of our unprecedented crisis, and of the mechanisms of denial with which we seek to avoid its fullest recognition.