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earwicker 's review for:
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells
It might get really bad. Or it might not get quite that bad, but even that will still be pretty bad. I'm going to err on the side of really bad because of people like Joe Manchin who still make money by mining coal and are comfortable with dumping the consequences on the next generation. No emissions reductions today, kids. But you're smart. I'm sure you'll figure it out.
That is Wallace-Wells message, and it's hardly debatable. There is denial, yes, but no debate. And yet Wallace-Wells has hope, which does seem debatable, with Joe Manchin pushing us in the direction of really bad.
My only quibble with Wallace-Well's book is the dead bee on the cover. He says that bee colony collapse is a climate red herring, and yet there it is on the cover of his book. Our concern with bee death, he says, is a climate parable that we tell ourselves to distract and distance ourselves from the true awful reality of climate change. So what's up with the dead bee on the cover? I think Wallace-Wells can learn something from his publishers: stories are not distractions. They're sales tools, like that dead bee. Selling action on climate change is critical right now. We don't need more climate science at this point, as crucial as that science is. What we really need is a religion, or a cult, or a fanatical ecology movement. At the very least, we need better stories, because let's face it: the science isn't selling.
That is Wallace-Wells message, and it's hardly debatable. There is denial, yes, but no debate. And yet Wallace-Wells has hope, which does seem debatable, with Joe Manchin pushing us in the direction of really bad.
My only quibble with Wallace-Well's book is the dead bee on the cover. He says that bee colony collapse is a climate red herring, and yet there it is on the cover of his book. Our concern with bee death, he says, is a climate parable that we tell ourselves to distract and distance ourselves from the true awful reality of climate change. So what's up with the dead bee on the cover? I think Wallace-Wells can learn something from his publishers: stories are not distractions. They're sales tools, like that dead bee. Selling action on climate change is critical right now. We don't need more climate science at this point, as crucial as that science is. What we really need is a religion, or a cult, or a fanatical ecology movement. At the very least, we need better stories, because let's face it: the science isn't selling.