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khelb 's review for:
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells
It feels very strange to give such a bleak book 4-stars, but it ends quite hopefully, and overall I really enjoyed it. I'd previously gotten just about all of my global warming and climate news from Twitter, so this was a much needed deeper dive for me.
That said, at times it didnt feel like such a deep dive. There are so very many threats that it definitely a little more of a mile wide/inch deep approach to the topic. This makes the first 12 chapters pretty hard to get through (Idk the page equivalent but it was the first five hours of a nine hour audiobook). And it doesn't really get much easier to read after that, only different. That said, I'm super glad I read it, and I do not think it'll be the last book I read about climate change.
Verdict: a not overly technical overview of current research in climate science and the many models for the climatological and societal impacts of 2-4 degrees of warming by the end of the century.
That said, at times it didnt feel like such a deep dive. There are so very many threats that it definitely a little more of a mile wide/inch deep approach to the topic. This makes the first 12 chapters pretty hard to get through (Idk the page equivalent but it was the first five hours of a nine hour audiobook). And it doesn't really get much easier to read after that, only different. That said, I'm super glad I read it, and I do not think it'll be the last book I read about climate change.
Verdict: a not overly technical overview of current research in climate science and the many models for the climatological and societal impacts of 2-4 degrees of warming by the end of the century.