The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming - David Wallace-wells

n#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 n nWith a new afterword nIt 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. n n 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. n n 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. n nPraise for The Uninhabitable Earth n nThe 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 n nRiveting.... Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.--The Economist n nPotent 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 n nThe book has potential to be this generation's Silent Spring.--The Washington Post n nThe 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 Booksn