The Uninhabitable Earth
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'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig
'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening Standard
Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times, Spectator and New Statesman
A Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019
Longlisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
It is worse, much worse, than you think.
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.
Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.
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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.
Description
'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig
'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening Standard
Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times, Spectator and New Statesman
A Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019
Longlisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
It is worse, much worse, than you think.
The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today.
Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.
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Posts
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.