The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.
David Wallace-Wells is deputy editor of New York magazine, where he also writes frequently about climate change and the near future of science and technology. In July 2017 he published a cover story surveying the landscape of worst-case scenarios for global warming that became an immediate sensation, reaching millions of readers on its first day and, in less than a week, becoming the most-read story the magazine had ever published -and sparking an unprecedented debate, ongoing still today among scientists and journalists, about just how we should be thinking, and talking, about the planetary threat from climate change.
In crystalline prose, Wallace-Wells provides a devastating overview
of where we are in terms of climate crisis and ecological
destruction, and what the future will hold if we keep on going down
the same path. Urgently readable, this is an epoch-defining
book.
*The Guardian*
'Clear, engaging and often dazzling'
*The Telegraph*
'A masterly analysis'
*Nature*
Relentless, angry journalism of the highest order. Read it and, for
the lack of any more useful response, weep. . . .The article was a
sensation and the book will be, too.
*The Sunday Times*
The most terrifying book I have ever read . . . a meticulously
documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes
that will soon engulf our warming planet.
*The New York Times*
This is what I'm reading now: The Uninhabitable Earth by David
Wallace-Wells. It focuses on the range of realistic possibilities
with climate change. It does not sugarcoat, and can be quite scary
-- that's without primarily focusing on the worstcase scenario.
When people ask 'What can I do? - Read! What we need right now, in
this country, is for all of us to be better, including
ourselves.
A must-read. It's not only the grandkids and the kids: it's you.
And it's not only those in other countries: it's you.
*Twitter*
I've not stopped talking about The Uninhabitable Earth since I
opened the first page. And I want every single person on this
planet to read it.
Riveting . . . Some readers will find Mr Wallace-Wells's outline of
possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be,
too.
*The Economist*
Skipping the scientific jargon and relaying the facts in urgent and
elegant prose, the magazine editor crafts a stirring wake-up call
to recognize how global warming will permanently alter every aspect
of human life.
*Time*
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