THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH

u003cbu003e#1 u003ciu003eNEW YORK TIMESu003c/iu003e BESTSELLER - "u003ciu003eThe Uninhabitable Earthu003c/iu003e hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon."--Andrew Solomon, author of u003ciu003eThe Noonday Demonu003cbru003eu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbu003eWith a new afterwordu003c/bu003e u003cpu003eIt 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--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. u003cpu003e An "epoch-defining book" (u003ciu003eTheu003c/iu003e u003ciu003eGuardianu003c/iu003e) and "this generation's u003ciu003eSilent Springu003c/iu003e" (u003ciu003eThe Washington Postu003c/iu003e), u003ciu003eThe Uninhabitable Earthu003c/iu003e is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it--the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. u003cpu003e u003ciu003eThe Uninhabitable Earthu003c/iu003e is also 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--today's. u003cpu003eu003cbu003ePraise for u003ciu003eThe Uninhabitable Earthu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003e u003cpu003eu003ciu003e"The Uninhabitable Earthu003c/iu003e is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet."u003cbu003e--Farhad Manjoo, u003ciu003eThe New York Timesu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003eu003ciu003eu003cbu003eu003cbru003eu003c/bu003eu003c/iu003eu003cbru003e"Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wells's outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too."u003cbu003e--The Economistu003c/bu003e u003cpu003e"Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the 'eerily banal language of climatology' in favor of lush, rolling prose."u003cbu003e--Jennifer Szalai, u003ciu003eThe New York Timesu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003e u003cpu003e"The book has potential to be this generation's u003ciu003eSilent Springu003c/iu003e."u003ciu003eu003cbu003e--The Washington Postu003c/bu003eu003c/iu003e u003cpu003e"u003ciu003eThe Uninhabitable Earth, u003c/iu003e which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book."u003cbu003e--Alan Weisman, u003ciu003eThe New York Review of Booksu003c/iu003eu003c/bu003e