The Uninhabitable Earth

David Wallace-Wells


non-fiction | climate crisis | journalist

First published 2019


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The Uninhabitable Earth, is a powerfully urgent book by American journalist, David Wallace-Wells. It paints a picture of how the future will look if we continue to ignore the looming climate crisis. Wallace-Wells details the cascading impacts of global warming, from rising sea levels and extreme weather events, to the potential destabilisation of economies, societies and ecosystems.

The book manages to stir up fear, using alarmist language, aiming to shake readers into action. The prose is often unnervingly direct, reflecting the true severity of the situation we are in. The book excels at outlining the scale of the problem, but it fails to offer readers any comprehensive solutions. Some readers may also find the lack of optimism disheartening too.

The strength of the book lies in its ability to clearly communicate the sheer enormity of the climate crisis, and is a sobering wake-up call, however, I was left with more questions than answers, and I even found some of the details to be already out-of-date. It's a book that demands the readers attention, but can leave you feeling quite powerless in the face of the magnitude of the problems that need to be solved.

 


Posted 23.10.2024



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