A review by carysn
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells

3.0

Somewhere between a 3 and a 4 star... maybe a 3.5. Uninhabitable Earth is a tough read - it's depressing and at times harrowing... but it is a book about climate change - what do you expect? The book is well written, well structured and although the writing is very dry and fact-heavy, I found it easy to read. I already know a lot about the topic but I didn't feel like the book was repeating itself and each chapter had a good mix of fimiliarity, more common knowledge of the topic(s), and some unknown facts which were fascinating. I made slow progress on the book simply because of the topic, but for what the book is - a well-written book about climate change with an about right amount of optimism in the final chapter(s) - it was very good. If you're struggling to get through it, the third section of the book is the easiest to get through.