TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallace-Wells,David
TI  - The uninhabitable earth: a story of the future 
SN  - 9780141988870
AV  - GF 75 W195u 2019
U1  - 304.2/8 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - [London]
PB  - Penguin Books, 
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Global warming
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Global environmental change
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Hombres
KW  - Influencia sobre la naturaleza
KW  - Calentamiento global
KW  - Aspectos sociales
KW  - Cambios climáticos
KW  - Cambio ambiental global
KW  - Degradación ambiental
N1  - "Penguin Environment"--Page 4 of cover
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; Ages 12 and up; Delacorte Press
N2  - 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.
ER  -