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Well that was something worth reading...during the peak of climate denial and during a pandemic.
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As with anything to do with the subject, it does not matter how well it is written if the content is accurate...and this book has both. It is a terrifying prospect for even an fraction of the author's words come true. A very necessary read.
Good Lord, this is a bleak book. While Wallace-Wells still leaves room for improvement on climate change, it's fairly obvious we're nowhere near a place as a planet to take the sweeping action necessary. This is a catalogue of catastrophes yet to come and it's worth reading just to have an idea of where our world is heading. It's impressive that, even despite the dire content of the book, he never comes across as needlessly alarmist or hyperbolic. Everything here is presented with equanimity and honesty; it's just a shame he doesn't have a better story to tell.
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I listened to this audiobook 9 months ago, and I still think about it all the time. I will never forget what it was like to start listening and desperately want to stop and go back to a time before. A time when all the apocalyptic climate projections weren’t quite tangible, when the occasional bits of news about some hypothetical moonshot technology were just enough to stave off daily thoughts of the horrid future for which we’re on course. This book listed off terrifying data, then anticipated my brain’s panicked “ok-but-it’s-not-really-*that*-bad-because…” rationalizations and shredded them to pieces as soon as they became a conscious thought.
It is every single stunning statistic, and every catastrophic projection about the present and future consequences of the damage humans have done to this planet, explained in unnerving detail, and soothed, barely, by a single idea: We are the ones who are capable of destroying Earth, and we are the ones capable of saving it, too.
It is a genuinely terrifying book, and everyone should read it.
It is every single stunning statistic, and every catastrophic projection about the present and future consequences of the damage humans have done to this planet, explained in unnerving detail, and soothed, barely, by a single idea: We are the ones who are capable of destroying Earth, and we are the ones capable of saving it, too.
It is a genuinely terrifying book, and everyone should read it.
I never actually finished this book. I grew tired of it with only 90 ish pages left.
As a geography student I did find some of the connections made enlightening, but I could not help but think some of the data used has really been manipulated to prove the author's point. Towards the second half of the book I began to think the author was running out of things to say and personally thought the connections became more tenuous.
Despite all that, I will absolutely praise this book for putting the severity of climate change within the public eye!
As a geography student I did find some of the connections made enlightening, but I could not help but think some of the data used has really been manipulated to prove the author's point. Towards the second half of the book I began to think the author was running out of things to say and personally thought the connections became more tenuous.
Despite all that, I will absolutely praise this book for putting the severity of climate change within the public eye!
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