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jybaker 's review for:
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells
This was a difficult book to rate. First of all, I have to credit the author for the vast amount of research poured into this book, with 65 pages of notes and sources. It's staggering.
Still, the thought I had at one point when slogging through it was 'this guy must be hell at a party'. Sentences that go on for an entire paragraph, multiple obscure references, some of which I took the time to look up but after a while gave up, six-syllable words when a simpler one would do, all pointed to a general impression of someone who enjoys hearing himself talk.
But all that aside, this book is worth the effort because we have to pay attention to what is happening, and Wallace-Wells has been paying attention for a long time. I'm grateful that he put his thoughts into words. I just wish he had made them a tad more accessible.
Still, the thought I had at one point when slogging through it was 'this guy must be hell at a party'. Sentences that go on for an entire paragraph, multiple obscure references, some of which I took the time to look up but after a while gave up, six-syllable words when a simpler one would do, all pointed to a general impression of someone who enjoys hearing himself talk.
But all that aside, this book is worth the effort because we have to pay attention to what is happening, and Wallace-Wells has been paying attention for a long time. I'm grateful that he put his thoughts into words. I just wish he had made them a tad more accessible.