05349cam a2200721Ii 4500 26353 26353 7106734 MeVbMML 20190502003018.0 190205s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng 2018051268 9780525576709 (hardback) 0525576703 (hardback) 9780525576709 27.00 0525576703 27.00 7103576 (OCoLC)on1084480796 (OCoLC)1084480796 7103576 7103576 DLC eng rda PNX PNX OCLCO JTH SINLB IAK GF75 .W36 2019 304.2/8 23 GF75 .W36 2019 GF75 .W36 2019 GF75 .W36 2019 GF75 .W36 2019 304.28 Wallace Wells 304.28 Wallace Wells 304.28 Wallace Wells 304.28 Wallace Wells 304.28 Wallace Wells 304.28 Wallace Wells Wallace-Wells, David, author. 10583 The uninhabitable earth : life after warming / David Wallace-Wells. First edition. New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2019] 310 pages ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-299) and index. I. Cascades -- II. Elements of chaos. Heat death -- Hunger -- Drowning -- Wildfire -- Disasters no longer natural -- Freshwater drain -- Dying oceans -- Unbreathable air -- Plagues of warming -- Economic collapse -- Climate conflict -- "Systems" -- III. The climate kaleidoscope. Storytelling -- Crisis capitalism -- The church of technology -- Politics of consumption -- History after progress -- Ethics at the end of the world -- IV. The anthropic principle. "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. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century. In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await--food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today. Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, [this book] is both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and 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"-- Provided by publisher. Nature Effect of human beings on. 10584 Global warming Social aspects. 10585 Climatic changes Social aspects. 10586 Global environmental change Social aspects. 10587 Environmental degradation Social aspects. 10588 New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf New Shelf ddc BOOK B1 NFLUCKY 0 0 0 241433-1 GF75 .W36 2019 Boston Library 39999095496129 9 5 0 2 5 27.00 Item generated Apr 16 2019 7:04AM B1 NFLUCKY 0 0 0 241433-1 GF75 .W36 2019 Boston Library 39999095496137 9 5 0 2 5 27.00 Item generated Apr 16 2019 7:04AM BPL NFX 26 239929-1 GF75 .W36 2019 Boston Library 39999095459036 9 6 2 2 5 27.00 Item generated Apr 5 2019 2:38PM B1 NF 26 238088-2 GF75 .W36 2019 Boston Library 39999095420558 9 6 2 2 5 27.00 Item generated Mar 25 2019 3:25PM BPLBR NF 26 238088-1 GF75 .W36 2019 Boston Library 39999095420566 9 6 2 2 5 27.00 Item generated Mar 25 2019 3:25PM ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ NF 2019-04-23 27.00 3 2 304.2 WALL 38606 2020-09-11 2020-08-06 2019-04-23 BOOK