The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

In a grim look at the climate crisis, author David Wallace-Wells illustrates how rising sea levels only scratch the surface of the world’s climate troubles. We’ll also experience food shortages, year-round wildfires, refugee crises, and floods. Without drastic action, Wallace-Wells explains that some of our planet may become uninhabitable. This will transform our politics, culture, relationship to technology, and even our sense of history. This book shows the bleak reality of climate change and what will happen if we don’t act now. --- #1 _NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER • “_The Uninhabitable Earth_ hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of _The Noonday Demon_ NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY _The New Yorker _•_ The New York Times Book Review _• _Time _• NPR • _The Economist _• _The Paris Review_ • _Toronto Star _• _GQ_ • _The Times Literary Supplement_ • The New York Public Library • _Kirkus Reviews_ It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An “epoch-defining book” (_The_ _Guardian_) and “this generation’s _Silent Spring_” (_The Washington Post_), _The Uninhabitable Earth_ is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. _The Uninhabitable Earth_ is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation—today’s. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD _“The Uninhabitable Earth_ is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.”—Farhad Manjoo, _The New York Times_ “Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells’s outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.”—_The Economist_ “Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of lush, rolling prose.”—Jennifer Szalai, _The New York Times_ “The book has potential to be this generation’s _Silent Spring_.”_—The Washington Post_ “_The Uninhabitable Earth,_ which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, _The New York Review of Books_