The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells is a New York magazine columnist and deputy editor. He was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review and a national fellow at the New America Foundation.

It is even worse than you imagine. If your concern about global warming is dominated by concerns about sea-level rise, you are only touching the surface of the terrors that could occur—food shortages, refugee crises, climatic wars, and economic catastrophe.

Among the best books on climate change, 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. It has been called a "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation's Silent Spring" (The Washington Post).

The Uninhabitable Earth is also a powerful cry to action. Because, just as the world was brought to the verge of disaster in the course of a lifetime, the responsibility for averting it now rests with a single generation— today's.

Author: David Wallace-Wells

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