{"product_id":"the-uninhabitable-earth-life-after-warming-by-david-wallace-wells","title":"The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells","description":"\u003cp\u003e#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - \"The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.\"--Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a new afterword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn \"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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for The Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Uninhabitable Earth 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.\"--Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.\"--The Economist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Potent 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.\"--Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book has potential to be this generation's Silent Spring.\"--The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.\"--Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catnap Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53852512321802,"sku":"9780593236680","price":5.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4730\/2666\/files\/1D24B3F6-0C50-4339-B3AE-B0E1A924B4B1.jpg?v=1791036846","url":"https:\/\/catnapbooks.nl\/products\/the-uninhabitable-earth-life-after-warming-by-david-wallace-wells","provider":"Catnap Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}