{"product_id":"the-uninhabitable-earth-life-after-warming-9780525576716","title":"The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming","description":"\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - \"\u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.\"--Andrew Solomon, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Noonday Demon\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new afterword\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An \"epoch-defining book\" (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"this generation's \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Uninhabitable Earth\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cb\u003e--Farhad Manjoo, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too.\"\u003cb\u003e--The Economist\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\"\u003cb\u003e--Jennifer Szalai, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The book has potential to be this generation's \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Uninhabitable Earth, \u003c\/i\u003e which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book.\"\u003cb\u003e--Alan Weisman, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Wallace-Wells\u003c\/b\u003e is a columnist and deputy editor at \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. He has been a national fellow at the New America Foundation and was previously the deputy editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604667142418,"sku":"9780525576716","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bf999bde-9700-43f5-bb2b-f8bddc542164.jpg?v=1732262651","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-uninhabitable-earth-life-after-warming-9780525576716","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}