The uninhabitable earth : a story of the future /
by Wallace-Wells, David.
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BookPublisher: UK : Allen Lane, 2019Description: 310 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780241355213 (hbk.) :; 0241355214 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 363.7387 WALSubject(s): Climatic changes -- Popular works | Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Popular works | Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- Popular works | Environment and ecology | Environment and EcologySummary: The signs of climate change are unmistakable even today, but the real transformations have hardly begun. We've been taught that warming would be slow - but, barring very dramatic action, each of these impacts is likely to arrive within the length of a new mortgage signed this year. What will it be like to live on a pummelled planet? What will it do to our politics, our economy, our culture and sense of history? And what explains the fact we have done so little to stop it? These are not abstract questions but immediate and pressing human dramas, dilemmas and nightmares. In 'The Uninhabitable Earth,' David Wallace-Wells undertakes a new kind of storytelling and a new kind of social science to explore the era of human history on which we have just embarked.
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| 363.7387 KIN Climate change: | 363.7387 KLE This changes everything: capitalism vs. the climate | 363.7387 KLE This changes everything: capitalism vs. the climate | 363.7387 WAL The uninhabitable earth : a story of the future / | 363.75 CAM All the living and the dead : a personal investigation into the death trade / | 363.75 FRE A straightforward guide to handling bereavement. | 363.75 LEW A guide to handling bereavement : the easyway / |
Originally published: New York: Tim Duggan Books.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The signs of climate change are unmistakable even today, but the real transformations have hardly begun. We've been taught that warming would be slow - but, barring very dramatic action, each of these impacts is likely to arrive within the length of a new mortgage signed this year. What will it be like to live on a pummelled planet? What will it do to our politics, our economy, our culture and sense of history? And what explains the fact we have done so little to stop it? These are not abstract questions but immediate and pressing human dramas, dilemmas and nightmares. In 'The Uninhabitable Earth,' David Wallace-Wells undertakes a new kind of storytelling and a new kind of social science to explore the era of human history on which we have just embarked.
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