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Beschreibung
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews
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.
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
"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
"Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too."-The Economist
"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
"The book has potential to be this generation's Silent Spring."-The Washington Post
"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
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Beiträge
Absolute Pflichtlektüre für jeden Erdenbürger. Mit eins der besten Bücher, die ich je über den Klimawandel gelesen habe. Die Szenarien werden geschildert und mit Studien, Untersuchungen belegt, das Versagen des Menschen deutlich gemacht. Aber auch eines der wenigen Bücher, die Hoffnung machen: Wir haben es vermasselt, wir können es auch schaffen. Motivierend, beängstigend und stärkend. Wenigstens 2 Grad...
Ich bin einerseits schockiert über die Dinge die Butter beschrieben werden, über das was mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit durch den Klimawandel passieren wird. Andererseits bin ich fasziniert darüber wie eindringlich und gut dieses Buch geschrieben ist. Ein absolutes Muss! Wer jetzt noch nicht an den Klimawandel glaubt, sollte dieses Buch lesen. Eine ausführlichere Bewertung in Podcast Form hier: https://anchor.fm/sigg-i/episodes/Folge-02-Die-unbewohnbare-Erde-von-David-Wallace-Wells-em7oc6
Correlation is not the same as causation. If you want to write a book like that do it properly. The numbers on climate refugees are nonsense because as researchers state no one names "climate change" as a reason for migration. The say its because of hunger or resource scarcity or whatever else so researchers can only then draw back to the reasons being maybe caused by climate change but there is no certainty so there are no absolute numbers. And that's just one example. This book may be backed up by a lot of sources but that does not mean it's well researched or that the research is properly interpreted and used. You can't just use the information in whatever way suits your alarmist rhetoric. Warming and climate change etc are serious issues and they will undeniably come back to bite us in the ass but this book should not be recommended as literature on the topic.
Beschreibung
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Economist • The Paris Review • Toronto Star • GQ • The Times Literary Supplement • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews
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.
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD
"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
"Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too."-The Economist
"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
"The book has potential to be this generation's Silent Spring."-The Washington Post
"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
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
Absolute Pflichtlektüre für jeden Erdenbürger. Mit eins der besten Bücher, die ich je über den Klimawandel gelesen habe. Die Szenarien werden geschildert und mit Studien, Untersuchungen belegt, das Versagen des Menschen deutlich gemacht. Aber auch eines der wenigen Bücher, die Hoffnung machen: Wir haben es vermasselt, wir können es auch schaffen. Motivierend, beängstigend und stärkend. Wenigstens 2 Grad...
Ich bin einerseits schockiert über die Dinge die Butter beschrieben werden, über das was mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit durch den Klimawandel passieren wird. Andererseits bin ich fasziniert darüber wie eindringlich und gut dieses Buch geschrieben ist. Ein absolutes Muss! Wer jetzt noch nicht an den Klimawandel glaubt, sollte dieses Buch lesen. Eine ausführlichere Bewertung in Podcast Form hier: https://anchor.fm/sigg-i/episodes/Folge-02-Die-unbewohnbare-Erde-von-David-Wallace-Wells-em7oc6
Correlation is not the same as causation. If you want to write a book like that do it properly. The numbers on climate refugees are nonsense because as researchers state no one names "climate change" as a reason for migration. The say its because of hunger or resource scarcity or whatever else so researchers can only then draw back to the reasons being maybe caused by climate change but there is no certainty so there are no absolute numbers. And that's just one example. This book may be backed up by a lot of sources but that does not mean it's well researched or that the research is properly interpreted and used. You can't just use the information in whatever way suits your alarmist rhetoric. Warming and climate change etc are serious issues and they will undeniably come back to bite us in the ass but this book should not be recommended as literature on the topic.