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kmedema 's review for:
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells
Books of this magnitude often leave me both in awe of the scope of the author's vision and completely worn out by being constantly pummeled with statistics and historical events. While I admire their ability to synthesize so many topics into the narrative, it gets to be white noise when it's paragraph after paragraph of evidence without deep dives into any of the scenarios. This isn't unique to Wallace-Wells; I felt the same way after reading Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens (which Wallace-Wells cites in this book). With the topic of this book being as heavy as it is, this approach wore me down. I started out with great enthusiasm but sped through the last 1/3, giving it only part of my focus. Maybe this would be better read no more than a chapter a week, so there is time to appropriately digest what Wallace-Wells is saying. It was just so much doom and gloom (yeah, I'm aware of the book's title and subject matter,) that even his last chapter, meant to be inspirational and a call to action, couldn't overcome. Still, it's an important subject for people to consider.