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A review by ostrowk
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
5.0
Oof! Wallace-Wells pulls nary a mf punch as he enumerates the causes, consequences, and conditions of the climate crisis. UNINHABITABLE EARTH is alarmist. As it should be. It presages doomsday. How could it not?? Incredibly researched, far-ranging, with sentences that shine. Notably, Wallace-Wells doesn't approach the issue from quite the same far-left position that I'm used to (like, say, Naomi Klein does, though he cites her). I wonder if his aversion to dogma could make this book more palatable to a wider audience? But who reads books anyway!
In short, hard to imagine a book more gorgeously written about so bleak a future. (Except my best friend Dan Sherrell did write exactly that; it's called WARMTH, hitting shelves Fall 2021. Keep your eyes peeled).
And, a moment of cross-pollination from EMERGENT STRATEGY, which I just finished. She asks how many of us feel, and can say proudly:
"I am living a life I don't regret
A life that will resonate with my ancestors,
and with as many generations forward as I can imagine.
I am attending to the crises of of my time with my best self,
I am of communities that are doing our collective best
to honor our ancestors and all humans to come."
I am not able to say this; both UNINHABITABLE EARTH and EMERGENT STRATEGY encourage me to take action that will make its saying more possible.
P.S. If you don't want to read the whole book, you could read the magazine article that spawned it: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html
In short, hard to imagine a book more gorgeously written about so bleak a future. (Except my best friend Dan Sherrell did write exactly that; it's called WARMTH, hitting shelves Fall 2021. Keep your eyes peeled).
And, a moment of cross-pollination from EMERGENT STRATEGY, which I just finished. She asks how many of us feel, and can say proudly:
"I am living a life I don't regret
A life that will resonate with my ancestors,
and with as many generations forward as I can imagine.
I am attending to the crises of of my time with my best self,
I am of communities that are doing our collective best
to honor our ancestors and all humans to come."
I am not able to say this; both UNINHABITABLE EARTH and EMERGENT STRATEGY encourage me to take action that will make its saying more possible.
P.S. If you don't want to read the whole book, you could read the magazine article that spawned it: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html