El planeta inhóspito: La vida después del calentamiento / The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Paperback)

from writemoves

This is a pretty scary book. I guess the only consolation is that I will be dead when most of the predicted consequences of us not dealing effectively now with climate change taking place. So what we're looking at are huge rises in sea levels that will submerge coastline cities and locations incl...

from labdaddy4

A very dense and slow read. The first 2/3 was completely doom and gloom. There was little optimism or hopefulness in the entire book - certainly no solutions and very few suggestions for a path forward other than calamity. This book does not inspire much hope or even any path forward that an indi...

from DavidWineberg

The Uninhabitable Earth is not just depressing, David Wallace-Wells' book is a merciless hammering of the reader, a bludgeoning to wake up to the horrors of climate change. It is both hard and unpleasant to read. Two-thirds through, Wallace unexpectedly pauses to say "If you have made it this far...

from labdaddy4

A very dense and slow read. The first 2/3 was completely doom and gloom. There was little optimism or hopefulness in the entire book - certainly no solutions and very few suggestions for a path forward other than calamity. This book does not inspire much hope or even any path forward that an indi...

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In no uncertain terms, the author lays out chapter by chapter the damage we in a short period of time, have done to our planet. Damage that is almost certainly irreversible unless some drastic measures are taken, and taken now. From super stroke, to the increased wild fires, flooding in so many a...