The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

It is considerably worse than you may imagine. You are hardly touching the surface of the horrors that could arise if your worries about global warming are primarily related to concerns about sea level rise. Today, wildfires rage throughout the year in California, destroying thousands of houses. Monthly after month, "500-year" storms devastate cities in the US, and tens of millions are displaced by floods each year.

This is merely a sneak peek at what's to come. And they're approaching quickly. By the end of this century, some regions of the Earth may be nearly uninhabitable and others horrifyingly inhospitable if billions of people don't undergo a revolution in the way they live their lives.

David Wallace-Wells vividly depicts the climatic problems that lie ahead, including food shortages, refugee crises, and other catastrophes that will drastically alter the face of the planet in his travelogue of the near future. However, warming will also have more significant effects on the planet, changing our politics, society, relationship to technology, and perception of history. It will be all-pervasive, influencing and warping almost every facet of contemporary human existence.

The Uninhabitable Earth, like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, is a passionate call to action as well as a meditation on the destruction we have caused to ourselves. Because, just as the world was thrust within a generation of impending disaster, it now rests on the shoulders of one generation to avert it.