The Uninhabitable Earth
LIFE AFTER WARMING
By DAVID WALLACE-WELLS
ABOUT THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH
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
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.
PRAISE
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
“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
“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
“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
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