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The Uninhabitable Earth

A Story of the Future

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The Uninhabitable Earth

By: David Wallace-Wells
Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
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It is worse, much worse, than you think.

The 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.

Over 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.

Written and read by David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth is a powerful examination of the world we find ourselves in.

©2019 David Wallace-Wells (P)2019 Penguin Audio 21st Century Climate Change Environment Future Studies Geopolitics History & Theory International Relations Modern Natural Disasters Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Political Science Politics & Government Science Social Sciences
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I wish everyone I know read this book because even my pro environmentalist friends don't understand the scope of danger we are facing. Although this kind of books have so many data that you need the skills to manage audio clips. I would rather buy the printed version to review it later.

Must read!

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If 10% of this book is truth and that truth comes to pass then as a species we are in allot of trouble. There is so much press about climate and allot of talk about renewable energy and our ability to engineer our way out of the problem of global warming. David puts this talk to the test and in short it’s not good. Lots of facts and figures but most of it is referenced albeit vaguely. It’s high level but that’s the point.

Real life horror story

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A must read. Fascinating. Pity the delivery is so poor. The voice is unattractive and the reader (none other than the author himself) seems to be reading the text for the first time, with pauses in all the wrong places. Still, I recommend this urgent environmental wake-up call.

Great book marred by poor delivery

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Everyone needs to read this ASAP, there is so little time and so much to do. THIS IS OUR WW3 senario and needs global attention. THIS IS OUR revolution.....

Everyone needs to read this ASAP

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A fascinating look at things to come, unless we act.

With regards the performance/narration, I think that David Wallace-Wells did a great job. Having the narration delivered by the author adds value, in my opinion.

Life-changing

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