A review by kilks401
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

5.0

"The last time the Earth was four degrees above the band we've been in, there were palm trees in the Arctic." Climate change is already here, with the earth having warmed 1 degree, such that we are now living in a warmer world than humans have lived in our entire history. The question is now do we consign our future to 2 degrees warmer, or 4 degrees warmer, with catastrophic consequences even at 2, but ones that pale in comparison to those at 4 degrees or even warmer.

This is a bracing, invigorating, necessary read about where we are headed, and the terror it should inspire, and extent to which uncertainty mandates action.