The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming

David Wallace-Wells

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--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation's Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth 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. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action.

Nature & EnvironmentNature & Environment · medium confidenceNature & Environment81 signalsLlm Classifier: Nature & Environment -> Nature & EnvironmentKeyword Classifier: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsKeyword Classifier: Nature & Environment -> Nature & EnvironmentClimate, Weather & DisasterImmigration, Refugees & BorderlandsOceans, Rivers & WaterTechnology, Computing & AI
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  1. 01 Central figures

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  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

    If anxiety about global warming focuses mainly on sea-level rise, it misses larger expected harms like food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars, and economic devastation.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    38 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 42%.