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

4.0

After reading this I let out a long, "fuuuuuuu*k". Climate change is not a game y'all-- this ish is very serious. I've been wanting to read a book about climate change for awhile and this was a perfect find for that. The first half of this book was great. The chapters were short and gave a deep dive into various climate related disasters (storms, famine, etc). Each chapter was long enough to get a good sense of the issue but not too long that I got overwhelmed. The back half of the book was...weird? Like I'm not really sure if it was necessary and I'm still unclear of the point. During one siting I was just reading along and I must have blacked out because all of a sudden we're talking about aliens, haha. Yeah, I didn't know what was going on there.

My other disappointment is that Wallace-Wells briefly mentioned that he had a child during the writing of this book, which must have been wild. I mean you're basically writing about the end-times while bouncing a little one on your lap--how?! I would have loved for that to be explored more. How does he not lose hope in the world that his children and grandchildren are going to inherit? Of course, I don't need to know all this man's business because I know that wasn't the purpose of the book. But still. It would have been interesting to apply some of the things he was talking about to his own lived experiences.

Overall, would highly recommend.