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The uninhabitable earth : a story of the future / David Wallace-Wells.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: [London] : Penguin Books, 2019Description: 320 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780141988870
  • 0141988878
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Uninhabitable earth (adapted for young adults)DDC classification:
  • 304.2/8
LOC classification:
  • GF 75 W195u 2019
Contents:
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
Summary: It is worse, much worse, than you think. 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. Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare. Provided by publisher.
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GF 75 P816h 1992 Historia verde del mundo / GF 75 S678 1983 La sociedad y el medio natural / GF 75 V595g 2005 Géo environnement / GF 75 W195u 2019 The uninhabitable earth : a story of the future / GF 75 W428h 2007 Homo disparitus / GF 75 W428m 2007 El mundo sin nosotros / GF 75 W428w 2007 The world without us /

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Edition statement from Afterword, page 229
First published as: The uninhabitable earth : life after warming. New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2019]

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

It is worse, much worse, than you think. 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. Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet. But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare. Provided by publisher.

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