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A review by kosr
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
5.0
The End
Its time for all of us to stop playing games.
This book is a cascade of anxiety inducing, despair-magnifying horror. I had an minor anxiety attack on the thirteenth page. Even Wallace-Wells (the author) commends his readers for reaching a certain stage within his extended essays* pages.
I've managed to desensitise myself to many ecological / climate change based articles, books, and journals so that I may educate myself on the topic. I erected barriers in my mind, so that I might handle the truth scientists stare at daily when analysing the state of the planet. However, The Uninhabitable Earth utterly vaporised those barriers into a pathetic nothingness. Wallace Wells completely gives up playing around in this text: we're on our way out if we don't stop what's happening within a decade (at maximum). We have already baked enough carbon into the system that a two degree heating up of the plant is almost certain. As such, Mr. Wells lays out, simply, clearly, exactly what we can expect from that 2 degrees. If we persue it further, a three, four and five degree increase in temperature will compound our suffering immensely (words really don't do justice to carnage the earth will wreak at a stage such as this).
The result is utterly soul destroying.
The massive body of information from decades of climate research he has collected is an amalgamation of irrefutable evidence that shows if we don't act, we are in store for what can only be described as Hell on Earth.
As such, we have no choice but to take action. The environmental movement extinction rebellion is planning a huge protest of disruption on April 15th 2019 to force governments to act; I will be attending. I would advise planning local action of your own. We're out of time.
This work is the literary access we have been given to stare into the human species collective soul. I am not engaging in dramatic flare when I say this book is an initiation. Every single one of us must read this book first before EVEN SAYING A SINGLE WORD about how we plan to individually deal mentally, and physically with climate change. As far as I'm concerned, you, me, and everyone on this earth has no right to even comment on this until they actual read what we're in store for (go for other books if not this one, whatever is required; read it).
My conclusion: this book more requires action, less analysis. Our time is up.
* This book originally appeared as an essay in the New Yorker 2018.
Its time for all of us to stop playing games.
This book is a cascade of anxiety inducing, despair-magnifying horror. I had an minor anxiety attack on the thirteenth page. Even Wallace-Wells (the author) commends his readers for reaching a certain stage within his extended essays* pages.
I've managed to desensitise myself to many ecological / climate change based articles, books, and journals so that I may educate myself on the topic. I erected barriers in my mind, so that I might handle the truth scientists stare at daily when analysing the state of the planet. However, The Uninhabitable Earth utterly vaporised those barriers into a pathetic nothingness. Wallace Wells completely gives up playing around in this text: we're on our way out if we don't stop what's happening within a decade (at maximum). We have already baked enough carbon into the system that a two degree heating up of the plant is almost certain. As such, Mr. Wells lays out, simply, clearly, exactly what we can expect from that 2 degrees. If we persue it further, a three, four and five degree increase in temperature will compound our suffering immensely (words really don't do justice to carnage the earth will wreak at a stage such as this).
The result is utterly soul destroying.
The massive body of information from decades of climate research he has collected is an amalgamation of irrefutable evidence that shows if we don't act, we are in store for what can only be described as Hell on Earth.
As such, we have no choice but to take action. The environmental movement extinction rebellion is planning a huge protest of disruption on April 15th 2019 to force governments to act; I will be attending. I would advise planning local action of your own. We're out of time.
This work is the literary access we have been given to stare into the human species collective soul. I am not engaging in dramatic flare when I say this book is an initiation. Every single one of us must read this book first before EVEN SAYING A SINGLE WORD about how we plan to individually deal mentally, and physically with climate change. As far as I'm concerned, you, me, and everyone on this earth has no right to even comment on this until they actual read what we're in store for (go for other books if not this one, whatever is required; read it).
My conclusion: this book more requires action, less analysis. Our time is up.
* This book originally appeared as an essay in the New Yorker 2018.