Review: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A profoundly depressing work that is profoundly convincing. It is an ice bucket to wake us up with a bit of hope that we may wake up:

"This goes beyond thinking like a planet, because the planet will survive, however terribly we poison it; it is thinking like a people, one people, whose fate is shared by all."

"The emergent portrait of suffering is, I hope, horrifying. It is also entirely, elective. If we allow global warming to proceed, and to punish us with all the ferocity we have fed it, it will be because have chosen that punishment—collectively walking down a path of suicide. If we avert it, it will be because we have chosen to walk different path, and endure."



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