oliverclarke 's review for:

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

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This book surprised me. Throughout part 1, which details practically every single way possible by which the Earth is currently dying, I wondered if there much point in reading all this. For anyone who is relatively up to date in their knowledge of the climate crisis, this might feel like its just beating you over the head with info, as it really does include soooo many stats. But as I reached part 2 I found it to be way more interesting, as it deals with how we're responding (or most of the time not) to the current and projected issues. And why we (governments mostly) might not be economically and socially incentivised to. By the end I found the chapter on doomsday and climate apathy to be rather entertaining, seems to be the headspace I'm currently in with the whole subject :/