Title: The Uninhabitable Earth Pdf Life After Warming
Author: David Wallace-Wells
Published Date: 2019
Page: 320
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE“Potent 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“The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent Spring.” —The Washington Post"Most of us know the gist, if not the details, of the climate change crisis. And yet it is almost impossible to sustain strong feelings about it. David Wallace-Wells has now provided the details, and with writing that is not only clear and forceful, but often imaginative and even funny, he has found a way to make the information deeply felt." —Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated“A brilliant new book. . . . a remorseless, near-unbearable account of what we are doing to our planet." —John Lanchester, The New York Times Book Review"David Wallace-Wells argues that the impacts of climate change will be much graver than most people realize, and he's right. The Uninhabitable Earth is a timely and provocative work." —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction"An excellent book. . . . Not since Bill McKibben’s The End of Nature thirty years ago have we been told what climate change will mean in such vivid terms." —Fred Pearce, The Washington Post"One of the very few books about our climate change emergency that doesn't sugarcoat the horror." —William T. Vollmann, author of No Immediate Danger“Powerfully argued. . . . A masterly analysis of why—with a world of solutions—we choose doom.” —Nature"This gripping, terrifying, furiously readable book is possibly the most wide-ranging account yet written of the ways in which climate change will transform every aspect of our lives, ranging from where we live to what we eat and the stories we tell. Essential reading for our ever-more-unfamiliar and unpredictable world." —Amitav Ghosh, author of Flood of Fire“Urgent and humane. . . . Wallace-Wells is an extremely adept storyteller. . . . A horrifying assessment of what we might expect as a result of climate change if we don’t change course.” —Susan Matthews, Slate“If we don’t want our grandchildren to curse us, we had better read this book.” —Timothy Snyder, author of Black Earth“Lively. . . . Vivid. . . . If you’ve snoozed through or turned away from the climate change news, this book will waken and update you. If you’re steeped in the unfolding climate drama, Wallace-Wells’s voice and perspective will be stimulating.” —David George Haskell, The Guardian“Beautifully written. . . . As climate change encroaches, things will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells spares no detail in explaining how.” —Kate Aronoff, Bookforum"Relentless, angry journalism of the highest order. Read it and, for the lack of any more useful response, weep." —Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times"A brilliant and unsparing analysis of a nightmare that is no longer a distant future but our chaotic, burning present. Unlike other writers who speak about human agency in the abstract, Wallace-Wells zeros in on the power structures and capitalist elites whose mindless greed is writing an obituary for our grandchildren." —Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear"A lucid and thorough description of our unprecedented crisis, and of the mechanisms of denial with which we seek to avoid its fullest recognition.” —William Gibson, author of Neuromancer"David Wallace-Wells has produced a willfully terrifying polemic that reads like a cross between Stephen King and Stephen Hawking. Written with verve and insight and an eerie gusto for its own horrors, it comes just when we need it; it could not be more urgent than it is at this moment. I hope everyone will read it and be afraid." —Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon David Wallace-Wells is a national fellow at the New America foundation and a columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine. He was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. He lives in New York City.
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.
Praise for The Uninhabitable Earth
“The 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
“Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—The Economist
Half the truth is worse than the whold truth I'm sure this will meet with skepticism because my assessment of a very popular notion never gets quickly accepted. But hear me out.I apparently am one of the few who has noticed something odd about the whole (politically motivated, created by a politician) "climate emergency movement". Sorry but that's the first thing that must be brought forth: few if any climatologists actually predict "climate catastrophe." The use greater caution and don't make that declaration, they say basically, "it might happen." And I see ordinary people unaware that they're mistaken to quote the late Carl Sagan when he described the planet Venus as what could happen due to "greenhouse gases." He's not here to ask but I cannot see anyone that honest and intelligent thinking that Earth could literally end up with an 800º F atmosphere. NOT GONNA HAPPEN (anytime before the year 2 billion "AD").As for "The Uninhabitable Earth" by Mr. Wallace-Wells, that's exactly what the title and text is trying to pull over our adult objective eyes.As follows: First paragraph points: (1)Re: author's first paragraph in Chapter One ("Cascades") Ahem, taking the weakest most suspect and most flawed arguments as the whole argument is NOT a credible or proper tactic. Of course we've all heard the statements by both special interests and simply uneducated people seeking to minimize what is happening with Earth's Climate. That's Red flag #1.Paragraph Two: Wallace-Wells begins by saying the "idea" that asteroids caused all the know extinctions is obviously false or mistaken. The problem is: HE believes that so many people mistakenly believe this, he must speak against it. Well - This has never been true! The discovery of the Chicxulub Crater in the western Gulf of Mexico DID show paleontologists that it was a factor and a major one. But very soon some paleontologist began questioning even that one single cause for the Cretaceous extinction. It COULD NOT have been the single cause without leaving evidence that would have been quite easy to find all around the world. Some of them have said that the continents being connected at the time allowed mass migrations which made spreading disease much easier and there was already climate changes which had already caused declines in several dinosaur species. The asteroids impact was a final blow. Secondly but important, he says, "...in fact all but the the one that killed the dinosaurs involved climate change..." This isn't even a scientific statement! Because he presents it as such is clearly reason for suspicion. The full story is: climate change took place in that Cretaceous Extinction 66-65 million years ago because several things had combined: first the continents were all bunched together making for a hot dry interior of gigantic size. Second, there was a period of massive volcanic activity which pumped lava over an area of 200,000 sq. miles to a depth of 6600 feet! This was a "super volcano" which would make the Yellowstone look weak because it's atmospheric emissions were several times greater (and much greater than that caused by humans today). And the eruptions lasted tens of thousands of years. Today there is no comparable source which would affect both land and sea life to that degree. It's important to note: our greenhouse gas emissions will drop to near zero in about 150 years when we exhaust the supply of fossil fuels! EVERYONE agrees on this!] Climate change played a role too in that extinction event. So did the over specialization of some dinosaur We are not overspecialized, we're the most widely adapted species on Earth. That's Red Flag #2.If you want, you can easily check the fact that during the "Period of the Dinosaurs" (Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods combined) the climate was almost entirely even warmer than the "catastrophe level" currently given by our saviors in the Democratic Party (since this is entirely a political party issue). Not only that, CO2 levels (determined by years of geological evidence) was higher than what is predicted to bring catastrophe on all the people on Earth "in the near future." From fully accepted evidence: we also know that the Earth was covered from pole to pole with plant life - until the climate changed TO COLD. No flooding killed any whole species, either. Only because humans have built in low lying areas will people be affected and have to move to more sensible nearby land. DON'T invest in shoreline property! That's not a "catastrophe," it's just smart financial advice. These FACTS have been in high school text books for years. There is no need to go looking for all those sources which either answered limited questions or which Wallace-Wells didn't even ask.Reading now, have not finished, but want to comment on other reviewers The first reviewer (one star) took a lot of time to discredit the accuracy of this book. I don't think "Ladyhawk" is really speaking to David Wallace-Wells's argument fairly. The future is, to say the least, uncertain, but can be understood to evolve within the bounds of wide extremes, each with a different probability. For instance, an as-yet-unknown technology might appear tomorrow that will solve or diminish the problem (a point the author makes repeatedly within the first chapter). Almost impossible, but possible. I think his point is , given the overwhelming consensus that human-caused carbon emissions (and other emissions that feedback loops will produce) is massively life-threatening to our children and grandchildren, we can't afford to wait for certainty. And so he's assembled facts from many credible sources to bolster his argument that we're in trouble.A couple of such facts that struck me were these: of the total quantity of intentional carbon burning that has occurred over the last 400 years, over half has happened since the premier of Seinfeld. 85% has occurred since the END of WWII. The compounding of global growth has resulted in enormous momentum for continued carbon burning.I don't understand why there is so much heat in the arguments of Ladyhawk and like-minded critics of those who raise this issue. I won't speculate on its sources. But I'd simply invite potential readers of this book to consider that when the greatest human-caused loss of life in human history -- World War II -- began, no one accurately predicted how it would go; how much the lives of people who lived within its theaters of operations would be changed (or abbreviated). That is one of the points that David Wallace-Wells invites readers to consider: that this WILL be worse than we think, because many are oblivious, or have a self-interest in the status quo, or maintain an optimism that will probably prove to be misplaced.Amazon lets you read the first few pages. Don't rely on my or any other reviews; go to the text and make up your own mind.Amazon lets you look.
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