{"product_id":"uninhabitable-earth-book-david-wallace-wells-9781984826589","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\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\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\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. You should be, too.\u003cb\u003e--The Economist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePotent 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.\u003cb\u003e--Jennifer Szalai, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book has potential to be this generation's \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth, \u003c\/i\u003e which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . 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":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49548584681745,"sku":"GOR010087893","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49644174770449,"sku":"GOR011713122","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50403315089681,"sku":"CIN1984826581G","price":5.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51207865991441,"sku":"GOR014199350","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1984826581.jpg?v=1751349369","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/uninhabitable-earth-book-david-wallace-wells-9781984826589","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}