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The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
by David Wallace-Wells
“We all lived for money, and that is what we died for.”
I very much enjoyed this book, even if I didn't always agree with the method of delivery. The focus on worst case scenarios and also dubious statistics can be overwhelming but in my opinion this is rightly so- the truth lies somewhere in the middle yet is every bit as devastatingly frightening. I perhaps might have preferred the author stick as well to hard facts, a passage about 'guilt saturates the planet’s air' is springing to mind. Reliance on hyperbole I feel dilutes the overall message and can further embolden a worldwide trend to ignore the ugly truth- that this is indeed happening, faster even than we imagined or predicted and it is all our fault. To quote Wallace-Wells, 'And yet now, just as the need for...cooperation is paramount, indeed necessary for anything like the world we know to survive, we are only unbuilding...alliances— recoiling into nationalistic corners and retreating from collective responsibility and from each other.' I only hope that we and future generations see sense before it is too late.
I very much enjoyed this book, even if I didn't always agree with the method of delivery. The focus on worst case scenarios and also dubious statistics can be overwhelming but in my opinion this is rightly so- the truth lies somewhere in the middle yet is every bit as devastatingly frightening. I perhaps might have preferred the author stick as well to hard facts, a passage about 'guilt saturates the planet’s air' is springing to mind. Reliance on hyperbole I feel dilutes the overall message and can further embolden a worldwide trend to ignore the ugly truth- that this is indeed happening, faster even than we imagined or predicted and it is all our fault. To quote Wallace-Wells, 'And yet now, just as the need for...cooperation is paramount, indeed necessary for anything like the world we know to survive, we are only unbuilding...alliances— recoiling into nationalistic corners and retreating from collective responsibility and from each other.' I only hope that we and future generations see sense before it is too late.