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The uninhabitable earth :
Wallace-Wells, David,
The uninhabitable earth : Life after warming / David Wallace-Wells. - First edition. - 310 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-299) and index.
Table of Contents
I Cascades 1
II Elements of Chaos 41
Heat Death 43
Hunger 54
Drowning 65
Wildfire 76
Disasters No Longer Natural 85
Freshwater Drain 94
Dying Oceans 103
Unbreathable Air 109
Plagues of Warming 119
Economic Collapse 126
Climate Conflict 136
"Systems" 144
III The Climate Kaleidoscope 155
Storytelling 157
Crisis Capitalism 174
The Church of Technology 189
Politics of Consumption 205
History After Progress 218
Ethics at the End of the World 226
IV The Anthropic Principle 241
Afterword 255
Acknowledgments 267
Notes 271
Index 351
"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"--
9780525576709 (hardback)
2018051268
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Global warming--Social aspects.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Global environmental change--Social aspects.
Environmental degradation--Social aspects.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
GF75 / .W36 2019
304.2/8
The uninhabitable earth : Life after warming / David Wallace-Wells. - First edition. - 310 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-299) and index.
Table of Contents
I Cascades 1
II Elements of Chaos 41
Heat Death 43
Hunger 54
Drowning 65
Wildfire 76
Disasters No Longer Natural 85
Freshwater Drain 94
Dying Oceans 103
Unbreathable Air 109
Plagues of Warming 119
Economic Collapse 126
Climate Conflict 136
"Systems" 144
III The Climate Kaleidoscope 155
Storytelling 157
Crisis Capitalism 174
The Church of Technology 189
Politics of Consumption 205
History After Progress 218
Ethics at the End of the World 226
IV The Anthropic Principle 241
Afterword 255
Acknowledgments 267
Notes 271
Index 351
"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"--
9780525576709 (hardback)
2018051268
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Global warming--Social aspects.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Global environmental change--Social aspects.
Environmental degradation--Social aspects.
NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
GF75 / .W36 2019
304.2/8