The Uninhabitable Earth /anglais

By David Wallace-Wells

Book Overview

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - " 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141988878
• ISBN13: 9780141988870
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: PENGUIN UK
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

We're doomed

There aren't a lot of good things about being old, but not being around for what's coming down the pike is one of them. You know things are just about hopeless when you learn that one idea to stop global warming is to intentionally increase air pollution because the pollution wouldn't be quite as deadly as the heating will be.

If this book doesn’t work as a wake up call ...

... nothing will. While the author is optimistic about human’s ability to respond to climate change (eventually? sooner or later?), I am not. Reading his well-reasoned chapters, what emerges clearly is that the necessary changes in human behavior to significantly respond to climate change issues - to really make a difference and HALT the dire direction to which we are steering the world around us - are political. Thus, individuals who earnestly and proudly recycle, eschew disposable shopping bags, etc., won’t really make a difference. It’s a bit like being on a train hurtling toward an abyss and, instead of stopping the train, you’re rearranging pillows and blankets. This book should be read by every elected and appointed official.