The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

Number-one New York Times best seller The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon With a new afterword 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.