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The Uninhabitable Earth

A Story of the Future

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The Uninhabitable Earth

Yazan: David Wallace-Wells
Seslendiren: David Wallace-Wells
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It is worse, much worse, than you think.

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.

Over the past decades, the term 'Anthropocene' has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live - the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance but a living nightmare.

Written and read by David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth is a powerful examination of the world we find ourselves in.

© David Wallace-Wells 2019 (P) Penguin Audio 2019

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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. (Matt Haig, 'The Book that Changed My Mind')
'Clear, engaging and often dazzling'
'A masterly analysis'
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. (Bryan Appleyard)
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.
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. (Margaret Atwood)
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.
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. (Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 So Far)
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This is hard to read - not because of his style but because it’s so terrifying. Wallace-Wells spells out the true impact of climate change on the world - food, access to water, economy, war, refugees- all within the foreseeable future. Should be read by all politicians

A true horror story

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Not gonna lie, at one point near the end the author actually congratulates you on even “getting this far” in the book. It’s not the kind of book that’s going to make you a whole bundle of laughs at a party, but as a companion piece to Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” (this is the book he cites as having sewed the seed of the idea) - we do kind of owe it to the future of humanity to at least try to sit up & pay attention.

Unrelentingly alarming, pretty depressing - but indubitably well researched & argued. You know deep down you should read it. Pack some Xanax...

Considerably more alarming than you’re even expecting

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Although I enjoyed the authors voice, I really struggled to follow his actual writing. It seemed to flit from one subject to another, didn’t seem to flow and I was quite disappointed by it.

So difficult to follow

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An intetesting and terrifying look at climate change and the implications for humanity. Not an easy or enjoyable listen but worthwhile.

A wake-up call

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Whoever made the decision that the author should perform as the narrator should be ashamed. He's by far the worst reader I've ever come across in many years of listening. The book should be an essential one for anyone who cares about the environment, but please read it, don't listen to this.

The content is fine; the narration is just awful.

Essential, but the narration is terrible!

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