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The Uninhabitable Earth

Auteur(s): David Wallace-Wells
Narrateur(s): David Wallace-Wells
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Number-one New York Times best seller • "The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon." (Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon)

With a new afterword

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 - food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars, and economic devastation.

An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), 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.

The Uninhabitable Earth is also 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 - today’s.

"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)

Praise for The Uninhabitable Earth

"Riveting.... Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too." (The Economist)

"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)

"The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear.... I encourage people to read this book." (Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books)

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"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.... Wallace-Wells’ imagine-the-worst approach has become prescient.... I read it with an unfolding mix of horror and hopelessness, the way you might learn of a terminal diagnosis that affects yourself and your family and everyone else you might ever hope to know.” (Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times)

The Uninhabitable Earth is unabashedly pornographic. It is also riveting.... Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’ outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.” (The Economist)

"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. This is a profound book, which simultaneously makes me terrified and hopeful about the future, ashamed and proud of being a human." (Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated)

"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)

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It was a good read, but I was disappointed about how the author diverted the No Future No Kids movement message. Anti-natalist environmentalists propose not having kids as the most effective way to help slowing climate change at personal level – way more effective of any other life style change.
While the author calls for action countless times, he dismissed the message as a sign of giving up on the effort to save the future.

Author didn't get the No Future No Kids movement

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This is a gripping overview of the science, psychology and ethics of climate change. It urges us all to action before it is too late, and it points the ways to overcoming this great challenge for humanity. It terrified me while also inspiring me to do all I can for the collective future of all the species that share this precious globe.

Must read

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This is an excellent book to listen to for anyone with an interest in, well, the future of human civilization. David Wallace-Wells focuses not on climate science, but rather on the impact climate change is having and threatens to have, on human life. The book is highly intelligent, draws on a wide range of relevant literature, and is elegantly written. The author does the narration very well, with evident passion. It is one of a handful of audiobooks that I felt I had to listen to again after the first time I heard it, so important did its content seem to me.

An excellent book on the human impacts of global warming

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heard about your book from "Plus on est de Fou Plus on Lit" at Radio-Canada. Then your interview from Krystal Kyle and Friends.

I think we are screwed too and I'm helping by making pipelines parts...

frightening

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After finishing the audio book I immediately went to get the paper back version of The Uninhabitable Earth. Wallace-Wells expertly crafts together a large body of climate knowledge that all humans must start to understand.

Must Read/listen for any human

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In short, although this book will make you feel terrible with dire predictions for our future together on earth, it also will empower you through education. I plan on listening to it again, as there is so much information it can feel overwhelming on the first go through. I appreciated how the information is presented in a way that makes sense to someone who has no scientific background. I usually enjoy reading over audio books, but in this case, I'm not sure I would have absorbed the material as well had I simply read it myself. If you only listen to one audio book, this should be it. Highly recommended.

Empowering through Understanding

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We know that we are entering a climate crisis, yet we don't always understand what this entails. The author walks us through the realistically scary impacts on our planet and it's inhabitants.

Scary and informative

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excllent overview of the true state of the climate catastrophe. Not sure his optimisim is warrentef though.

terrifying, but important

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what we do about it, like jumping off a bridge which this book made me feel like , is up to us.
depressingly alarming.

the science is there

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For anyone curious about the effects of climate change this is a must read. That being said I also recommend everyone to listen to this book. It paints a vivid picture of the current state of climate change and what scientist are predicting for the future; will keep you interested throughout. Well done!

A must listen!

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