ii_b00bs 's review for:

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

3.0

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while this was an insightful read, I cannot confidently claim it was an enjoyable one. for one, the terrifying and bleak subject matter was hard to stomach, so I was never able to casually read Wells' work; I had to be in a very specific mindset to pick this book up, which hampered my will to read anything else for a while. the book kind of serves as a quicksand trap, where one's passion for reading goes to die for a small period of time. additionally, a lot of the same things are repeated but in a new dry way. wells also went on long tirades about things that were extraordinarily loose in relation to the topic. the book was saturated with completely unnecessary blurbs of things with no relevance to anything. despite this, I absolutely recommend this book. it is incredibly insightful and worldly! there are a slew of solid facts and helpful comparisons. it really achieves the goal of explaining possible scenarios of our lives on earth after a few degrees of warming. 3/5 :)