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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
informative
slow-paced
There is a lot of information in this book, if you are a beginner to climate change. I think that if you are torn, but leaning towards believing in climate change this book would help sway you. If you are a firm non-believer it will not. If you are a firm believer it just fills in the same information that you have probably heard many times before.
One note he made was about the fact that as climate change gets worse there will be more cults created. This is an interesting theory and I would tend to believe that possible as well. Many cults form on the basis that someone can make a change for the better for people. The worse things get the more people will look for someone to fix everything for them.
One note he made was about the fact that as climate change gets worse there will be more cults created. This is an interesting theory and I would tend to believe that possible as well. Many cults form on the basis that someone can make a change for the better for people. The worse things get the more people will look for someone to fix everything for them.
This is the most important book I will probably ever read AND it's quite well written.
I wish I could say it's the best science fiction I've ever read....
I wish I could say it's the best science fiction I've ever read....
essential reading for anyone who wants to learn the true extent of climate change. whilst this is a bleak look into the coming decades, i feel somewhat comforted knowing what to expect and that we already have so many options available to halt global warming- we just need to implement them.
challenging
dark
informative
medium-paced
This book is important.
It's very well written and just eminently thought upon.
I think it's strength, for me, was its weakness as well. Sometimes I felt that I was very much not the intended audience with some of the lingo and jargon and allusion flourishes that Wallace-Wells pours into his prose.
This other criticism I have, I'm not sure is warranted. I'd need to read it again just to make sure. Possibly come back to it after time in reflection land. Here is the critique: I felt hammered in the head with doom. Not in the sense of the point of the book, to show us that if we don't act, bad things will come. It was more like the feeling of reading 50 differently worded but identical conclusions through the piece, as if they didn't know about each other. As if there wasn't something being built.
At times it was a slog, both with the prose and the heaviness of the topic. It took me 8 months to read it, and I am a pretty good reader. (Could be the pandemic though.) But it IS an important read, something that focuses the current and future crises. And we need that focus and the different ways to talk about it. For that, I'm thankful this book is out there.
It's very well written and just eminently thought upon.
I think it's strength, for me, was its weakness as well. Sometimes I felt that I was very much not the intended audience with some of the lingo and jargon and allusion flourishes that Wallace-Wells pours into his prose.
This other criticism I have, I'm not sure is warranted. I'd need to read it again just to make sure. Possibly come back to it after time in reflection land. Here is the critique: I felt hammered in the head with doom. Not in the sense of the point of the book, to show us that if we don't act, bad things will come. It was more like the feeling of reading 50 differently worded but identical conclusions through the piece, as if they didn't know about each other. As if there wasn't something being built.
At times it was a slog, both with the prose and the heaviness of the topic. It took me 8 months to read it, and I am a pretty good reader. (Could be the pandemic though.) But it IS an important read, something that focuses the current and future crises. And we need that focus and the different ways to talk about it. For that, I'm thankful this book is out there.
informative
fast-paced
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
We're running out of time. And, we I do me 'we' in the collective sense. Because none of us will be spared from the hell unleashed if we do not begin to take the climate catastrophe seriously as the emergency that is. Whilst some of us will not face the inevitable transformation warming will unleash simply because we are older, our children and grandchildren will. And, that's on us, not them. They deserve better.
A terrifying read, well written, one that might awakes you on the danger of the warming.
dark
informative
slow-paced