The Uninhabitable Earth : : Life After Warming

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Call Number: 304.28 Wa, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Conservation / Wallace-Wells, David
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I. Cascades -- II. Elements of chaos. Heat death ; Hunger ; Drowning ; Wildfire ; Disasters no longer natural ; Freshwater drain ; Dying oceans ; Unbreathable air ; Plagues of warming ; Economic collapse ; Climate conflict ; "Systems" -- III. The climate kaleidoscope. Storytelling ; Crisis capitalism ; The church of technology ; Politics of consumption ; History after progress ; Ethics at the end of the world -- IV. The anthropic principle.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Meh. submitted by kjmclark on January 14, 2020, 11:32am There are better books on the subject. This one is just more recent. The author is very fond of "quotidian", so if you're impressed by that, this might be the book for you! "Deep Future: The next 100,000 years...", Michael Mann's books, and Romm's "Climate Change: What everyone needs to know" are all excellent, without being so pretentious. However, a good thing about this book is reading a coastal elite chastize other coastal elites. It is funny, after all, that so much attention is given to sea level rise, while our region is getting inundated with rain and the west is burning.