The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Written by:
David Wallace-Wells
Narrated by:
David Wallace-Wells

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
53
Narrator
13
Release Date
February 2019
Duration
9 hours 1 minute
Summary
#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

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.

Praise for The Uninhabitable Earth

“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

“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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Damon P.

Well stated now the question as I understand it is does our species have the wherewithal to fix it?

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Anonymous

Really informative

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Anthony S.

made a strong argument weak by adding scientifically inaccurate information to what should have been an incredibly strong case to make for climate change

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Brandon V.

Very troubling future ahead of us according to the science.

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Mudassar B.

The author gives a bleak picture of where Earth, our home, is heading towards unless we are able to bring about a complete overhaul in our infrastructure, policies and culture. The proof of ‘global warming’ is unmistakable and forebodes unprecedented catastrophe for the mankind.

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Sandra C.

A good case was made for activism to save our environment for humans. Interesting information regarding different effects on different people and their coping strategies as well as philisophical and political implications. it is worthy of 5 stars but some of the language was over my head.

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