{"product_id":"the-uninhabitable-earth-9780141988870","title":"The Uninhabitable Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e**SUNDAY TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eAND\u003ci\u003e THE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''An epoch-defining book'' Matt Haig\u003cbr\u003e''If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this'' David Sexton, \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times, Spectator \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the PEN \/ E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award \u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is worse, much worse, than you think. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn''t happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the past decades, the term Anthropocene has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003cb\u003e crystalline prose\u003c\/b\u003e, Wallace-Wells provides a devastating overview of where we are in terms of climate crisis and ecological destruction, and what the future will hold if we keep on going down the same path. \u003cb\u003eUrgently readable, this is an epoch-defining book\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Matt Haig, 'The Book that Changed My Mind' * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Clear, engaging and often dazzling'\u003c\/b\u003e * The Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A masterly analysis'\u003c\/b\u003e * Nature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelentless, angry journalism of the highest order\u003c\/b\u003e. Read it and, for the lack of any more useful response, weep. . . .The article was a sensation and the book will be, too. -- Bryan Appleyard * The Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most terrifying book I have ever read\u003c\/b\u003e . . . a\u003cb\u003e meticulously documented\u003c\/b\u003e, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet. * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis is what I'm reading now: \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e by David Wallace-Wells. It focuses on the range of realistic possibilities with climate change. It does not sugarcoat, and can be quite scary -- that's without primarily focusing on the worstcase scenario. \u003cb\u003eWhen people ask 'What can I do? - Read!\u003c\/b\u003e What we need right now, in this country, is for all of us to be better, including ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA must-read\u003c\/b\u003e. It's not only the grandkids and the kids: it's you. And it's not only those in other countries: it's you. -- Margaret Atwood * Twitter *\u003cbr\u003eI've not stopped talking about \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth \u003c\/i\u003esince I opened the first page.  And \u003cb\u003eI want every single person on this planet to read it\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRiveting\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Some readers will find Mr Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. \u003cb\u003eHe is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eSkipping the scientific jargon and relaying the facts in \u003cb\u003eurgent and elegant prose\u003c\/b\u003e, the magazine editor crafts \u003cb\u003ea stirring wake-up call\u003c\/b\u003e to recognize how global warming will permanently alter every aspect of human life. -- Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 So Far * Time *\u003cbr\u003eWallace-Wells is an \u003cb\u003eextremely adept storyteller, simultaneously urgent and humane\u003c\/b\u003e . . .  [he] does a terrifyingly good job of moving between the specific and the abstract. * Slate *\u003cbr\u003eEnough to induce an honest-to-God panic attack ... The margins of my review copy of the book are scrawled with expressions of terror and despair, declining in articulacy as the pages proceed, until it's all just cartoon sad faces and swear words ... \u003cb\u003eTo read \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is to understand the collapse of the distinction between alarmism and plain realism\u003c\/b\u003e -- Mark O'Connell * The Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThere is \u003cb\u003emuch to learn from this book\u003c\/b\u003e. From media and scientific reports of the past decade, Wallace-Wells sifts key predictions and conveys them in \u003cb\u003evivid prose\u003c\/b\u003e. -- David George Haskell * The Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrilliant\u003c\/b\u003e ... At the heart of Wallace-Wells's book is a remorseless, near-unbearable account of what we are doing to our planet * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eNot since Bill McKibben's \"The End of Nature\" 30 years ago have we been told what climate change will mean in such vivid terms. -- Fred Pearce * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003eEveryone should \u003cb\u003estop what they're doing and read \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e by @dwallacewells. This is our future if we don't act now. -- Johann Hari * Twitter *\u003cbr\u003eWake up! Get educated - \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e by David Wallace Wells is a great place to start. -- Paris Lees * Vogue *\u003cbr\u003eA book that's by turns alarming, terrifying and just downright bleak . . .\u003cb\u003e a sustained piece of informed polemic\u003c\/b\u003e. * The Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003every accessible and compelling\u003c\/b\u003e read . . . a much more\u003cb\u003e nuanced\u003c\/b\u003e and a much more\u003cb\u003e hopeful\u003c\/b\u003e vision than you might expect. * The Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eI think\u003cb\u003e everyone should probably right now read David Wallace-Wells's \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, which tells the grim story with as much optimism as possible, and which gives all the facts. -- Daniel Swift * The Spectator, Books of the Year *\u003cbr\u003eWell-written, \u003cb\u003ecaptivating\u003c\/b\u003e, occasionally wry and utterly petrifying * i News *\u003cbr\u003eIn his \u003cb\u003egripping \u003c\/b\u003enew book ... Wallace-Wells \u003cb\u003eshocks\u003c\/b\u003e us out of complacency' * Prospect *\u003cbr\u003eIf you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be [this] . . . \u003cb\u003eWhat this book forces you to face is more important than any other subject you could be informing yourself about.\u003c\/b\u003e * The Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003eExceptionally well researched and written. . . . This short, concise book pulls no punches.\u003cbr\u003eYes, this book will scare you, but it will also \u003cb\u003eprompt you to take action\u003c\/b\u003e to ensure the damage we as humans have done to the planet is stopped. * Stylist, ‘Your guide to 2019’s best non-fiction books’ *\u003cbr\u003eMost of us known the gist, if not the details, of the climate change crisis. And yet it is almost impossible to sustain strong feelings about it. David Wallace-Wells has now provided the details, and with writing that is not only \u003cb\u003eclear and forceful, but often imaginative and even funny\u003c\/b\u003e, he has found a way to make the information deeply felt. This is a \u003cb\u003eprofound\u003c\/b\u003e book, which simultaneously makes me \u003cb\u003eterrified and hopeful about the future, full of regret and new will\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarrowing\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Jonathan Franzen * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e hits you like a comet, with an \u003cb\u003eoverflow of insanely lyrical prose\u003c\/b\u003e about our pending armageddon.\u003cbr\u003eJust finished The Uninhabitable Earth by @dwallacewells. \u003cb\u003eEveryone, everywhere, should read it\u003c\/b\u003e. Can't remember the last time a book had such an impact on me. * Twitter *\u003cbr\u003eYes, this book will scare you, but it will also \u003cb\u003eprompt you to take action\u003c\/b\u003e to ensure the damage we as humans have done to the planet is stopped. * Stylist, Your Guide to the Best Books of 2019 *\u003cbr\u003eOn [Alexandra] Ocasio-Cortez's office bookshelf, near a picture of her late father and a photo of her with a local Girl Scout troop, two books nestle together in uneasy union. One is the Federalist papers. The other is \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e. * Time magazine profile on Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez *\u003cbr\u003eIf there are people around to write history books in the future, they will look back at the @ExtinctionR protestors and think they were the sanest people of our time. Read \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth \u003c\/i\u003eby @dwallacewells if you don't know why. * Johann Hari, Twitter *\u003cbr\u003eIf we don't want our grandchildren to curse us, we had better read this book.\u003cbr\u003eDavid Wallace-Wells argues that the impacts of climate change will much graver than most people realize, and he's right. \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and provocative work.\u003cbr\u003eTrigger warning: when scientists conclude that yesterday's worst-case scenario for global warming is probably unwarranted optimism, it's time to ask Scotty to beam you up. At least that was my reaction upon finishing Wallace-Wells' brilliant and unsparing analysis of a nightmare that is no longer a distant future but our chaotic, burning present.\u003cbr\u003eA lucid and thorough description of our unprecedented crisis, and of the mechanisms of denial with which we seek to avoid its fullest recognition.","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732510421335,"sku":"9780141988870","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141988870.jpg?v=1719997201","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-uninhabitable-earth-9780141988870","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}