The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

It is worse, much worse, thank you think.

That's how the book begins. It paints a much bleaker picture than How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates which I read before this one. It includes a lot of current scenarios and best-and-worst future prediction. All of which are very scary. It's as scary as any of the dystopian science fiction post-apocalyptic novel you'd ever read. The scariest part is that I don't think that's an alarmist view, but a realistic one. And it seems like not nearly enough people are aware or taking action.

The near future sketched in the first half of The Uninhabitable Earth is one of a planet tortured by epic wildfires, rising sea levels, megadroughts, famines, acidifying oceans, polluted air, and rising temperatures amidst which hundreds of millions of climate refugees wander a planet in the throes of collapsing economies and emerging conflicts. In short, Wallace-Wells would like you to know that, unless urgent action is undertaken to combat climate change, we are all royally fucked.

We've doubled the amount of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere in just the last 25 years. I'm like. I've remembered that entire time. I'm 33. The last 25 years is all me. That's all us. This wasn't something that just accumulated slowly since beginning of the industrial revolution.