The uninhabitable earth : a story of the future / David Wallace-Wells.
Publication details: London : Penguin Books, 2019.Edition: Paperback editionDescription: 320 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780141988870
- 0141988878
- 363.73874 23
- QC903 .W35 2019
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 363.738 WAL | Available | 070177 |
Includes bibliographical references 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 -- Afterword to the paperback edition.
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.