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sarahbec 's review for:
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells
1.5
Alrighty. This is a rant review.
For context, I am currently a university student in the STEM field. I say this because while I am no expert, my perspective of climate change is from a scientific point of view and I know very little/nothing about the economics of climate change which is the perspective this book seems to be written from.
While I find the content of this book interesting, the biggest complaint I have is the execution. The prose and word choices made by this author makes no sense to me. The sentences were unreasonably formated and the choices of words when describing scientific findings genuinely made me angry. During this whole book, I really felt like he was using big scientific words to sound like he was more educated on the topic than he was. This is so upsetting to me because climate scientists do not want their work to be difficult. They are literally observing how human activity is destroying our planet. We WANT this information to be accessible and digestible to the masses. I felt that the execution of this book really contradicted that.
The second issue I had with this book is that it fell into the trap of telling the reader what is happening rather than showing them. This book was just a brief compilation of results but didn't show the reader how the results were concluded to. This may be beneficial for readers that are new to the subject and want a brief summary but as stated above, the execution contradicts that goal. This is probably something I could have figured out if I had done prior research into the book but it was so highly recommended that I figured I'd just give it a try.
Overall, this was a huge disappointment. If you are wanting a brief introduction to the topic of climate change, this might be for you. But if you are like me and wanted something that dove deeper into the science behind it: I would not recommend.
Alrighty. This is a rant review.
For context, I am currently a university student in the STEM field. I say this because while I am no expert, my perspective of climate change is from a scientific point of view and I know very little/nothing about the economics of climate change which is the perspective this book seems to be written from.
While I find the content of this book interesting, the biggest complaint I have is the execution. The prose and word choices made by this author makes no sense to me. The sentences were unreasonably formated and the choices of words when describing scientific findings genuinely made me angry. During this whole book, I really felt like he was using big scientific words to sound like he was more educated on the topic than he was. This is so upsetting to me because climate scientists do not want their work to be difficult. They are literally observing how human activity is destroying our planet. We WANT this information to be accessible and digestible to the masses. I felt that the execution of this book really contradicted that.
The second issue I had with this book is that it fell into the trap of telling the reader what is happening rather than showing them. This book was just a brief compilation of results but didn't show the reader how the results were concluded to. This may be beneficial for readers that are new to the subject and want a brief summary but as stated above, the execution contradicts that goal. This is probably something I could have figured out if I had done prior research into the book but it was so highly recommended that I figured I'd just give it a try.
Overall, this was a huge disappointment. If you are wanting a brief introduction to the topic of climate change, this might be for you. But if you are like me and wanted something that dove deeper into the science behind it: I would not recommend.