{"product_id":"uninhabitable-earth-book-david-wallace-wells-9780525576709","title":"The Uninhabitable Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.--Andrew Solomon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e The New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003e- NPR - \u003ci\u003eThe Economist \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eToronto Star \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e - The New York Public Library - \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An epoch-defining book (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e) and this generation's \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cb\u003e--Farhad Manjoo, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRiveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. 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I encourage people to read this book.\u003cb\u003e--Alan Weisman, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49514947248401,"sku":"CIN0525576703G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49578372563217,"sku":"GOR009732248","price":23.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49725847666961,"sku":"CIN0525576703VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49996350718225,"sku":"GOR010228335","price":32.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50037373108497,"sku":"CIN0525576703A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52515619930385,"sku":"CIN0525576703LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53024339263761,"sku":"GOR012916678","price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0525576703.jpg?v=1750782803","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/fr-fr\/products\/uninhabitable-earth-livre-david-wallace-wells-9780525576709","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}