{"product_id":"the-uninhabitable-earth-life-after-warming","title":"The Uninhabitable Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER • “\u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new afterword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An “epoch-defining book” (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e) and “this generation’s \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“The Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003cb\u003e—Farhad Manjoo, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”\u003cb\u003e—The Economist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—Jennifer Szalai, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book has potential to be this generation’s \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth,\u003c\/i\u003e which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”\u003cb\u003e—Alan Weisman, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"David Wallace-Wells","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53290212229488,"sku":"9780525576716","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0985\/0463\/8832\/files\/2815913482375.jpg?v=1772151989","url":"https:\/\/papervalebooks.com\/products\/the-uninhabitable-earth-life-after-warming","provider":"Papervale Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}