scouts_sleepyreader 's review for:

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

3.0

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While it's necessary to really take a look at the consequences of climate change on all facets of our lives, I don't really see the value in speculating and exaggerating the potential consequences. There's no doubt that climate change is real and is an immediate threat to the planet as we know it, but at the same time, I struggled with this book because the author essentially put asterisks on every claim he made by constantly reiterating that these are the possible outcomes from climate change within the next century. One section that had me scratching my head was the Climate Conflict section, where Wallace-Wells discusses the potential increase in war, but more locally, murders and road rage by 2100 as a result of higher temperatures, based on obscure studies from centuries ago. Not sure what editing needed to be done there, but claims like those seem unfounded. Nevertheless, I still think this book provides an interesting outlook on all the ways the climate crisis affects every single living being on the planet, and it is definitely worth the read in the end.