The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells

It is worse, much worse, than you think.
Out now: amzn.to/2MOJOQp
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.
'A profound book, which simultaneously makes me terrified and hopeful about the future' Jonathan Safran Foer
A Times and FT Most Anticipated Book 2019
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[@mb5970]

I read this book. Its basically a projection of how much everything is going to suck soon, and why. I respect this man. He took the time and effort to sum up all kinds of research which we wouldn't otherwise read because it is either too difficult to understand or too depressing. You're an inspiration sir, I will try to do my part as well.

[@paxwallacejazz]

Farley Mowat great Canadian Naturalist and Novelist wrote "We are under the gross misconception that we are a good species going somewhere important and that at the last minute we will correct our errors and God will smile on us. It is delusion. "

[@ADEehrh]

👍👍

[@steveh1844]

👏🏻

[@alexcarter8807]

Farley Mowat is gold.

[@funkcatbrown]

I’m in agreement with you and you’re right. It’s all gonna happen faster than many people think. Even scientists predictions are wrong. I’m gonna buy your book.

[@danyeo]

climatefeedback.org/evaluation/scientists-explain-what-new-york-magazine-article-on-the-uninhabitable-earth-gets-wrong-david-wallace-wells/

[@Venuslovefactor]

Great job David; you, Dr. Guy McPherson and Dr. Peter Wadhams have contributed to inspire me to write another book, this time on Global Climate Chaos - practical and spiritual Earth-human connections. You're courageous for telling the truth. Most conditioned sheep are living in Denial, our favorite human trait.

[@alysfreeman11]

Those of great minds always warned us against our progress, even back in the 1600's. I'm a child of the seventies and it is then that I feel we could of made changes but the consumerism and corporations had and agenda at all costs...and this is it.

[@markosl428]

dang you were alive back then

[@sekaradi1101]

What's the different between 'life after warming' and 'the story of the future'?

[@ADEehrh]

I wonder what the mindset of those who continue to deny this catastrophe in the marking, even If it were wrong; why would anyone make efforts to stop the effort to stop it? Unless it's entirely self centerd greed! I feel bad for the kids inheriting the mess!

[@awerageguy]

Does somebody know what was the music used in the background ?

[@erwin643]

Nice!

[@chineseboxer108]

Meanwhile his book is for sale and not freely available on PDF or audio on platforms like youtube. :^(

[@EnzoLuka21]

Great book I very much enjoyed it. We are doomed, nothing is going to change. I just hope some species are lucky enough to survive before humans destroy everything.Hopefully, this pandemic will be the beginning.

[@sylviahansen2747]

Scientist project that if emissions continue to rise unchecked, the Arctic could be ice free in the summer as soon as the year 2040 as ocean and air temperatures continue to rise rapidly. Since the 70's environment concerns have been reported, I'm hoping that this pandemic is the jolt civilization needs to abruptly change.

[@xchopp]

Penguin Books UK: please employ caption editors who either know how to spell, or know how to use a spill-chikker. Please! You are a publishing house.

[@ADEehrh]

Chikker?

[@strawberrychaos73]

@@ADEehrh spill?

[@alexjointsoon592]

how much time do we have?

[@squamish4244]

We have to stop emissions from rising in the next few years, then they have to decline. We also need to deploy geoengineering on a massive scale. If we do nothing, we have about 30 years before everything goes to shit.

[@donavonwayne1102]

My brother, it's like collectively we are dealing with our shadow, many cannot face it, ..the irony is that we have come to a point we cannot avoid mother earth is going to teach us a lesson..it's intense I'm not implying it's not a horrible situation I also have been slammed with the reality, and have been feeling hopeless , pessimistic, angry sad, and also some weird relief that the lie we have been living has now come full circle I tend to be more of a realist, in my philosophy yet I am walking the spirit path, the medicine way, we need to create power structures btwn folks who are willing but unable to bring change like pooling our resources, which actually are not ours to possess..this rekindling of our connection to earth and all things..is the key..letting go of control of outcome, and finding harmony now, The planet will be fine, but we are due for a big humbling, trust the process , we will rise above the ashes of this world, ablazen

[@jerrybarr3354]

Bacteria in a Petri dish 👈

[@edwardfoehring8827]

We will adapt

[@chancellorrr]

No we wont, that's what his book is all about, we will normalize climate change until we can't normalize it anymore

[@AudioPervert1]

such books should be free ... yet penguin must make money like all others, till the end...

[@aizat27]

Who should pay the author, publication, printing, distribution then?

[@AmitZinmanVideo]

So does the book offer ANY solutions? Does it advocate for simple living? for less consumption? for not using cars? for veganism?

[@tonyjennings277]

all of these & much much more - pass it on (%!

[@AmitZinmanVideo]

@@tonyjennings277 Is there an available table of contents to look at?

[@kimweaver3323]

Or nothing. It is way too late to intervene. Deal with it. STOP HAVING CHILDREN. That is a necessary, but not sufficient, measure that must be taken. @@tonyjennings277

[@edwardfoehring8827]

12 years left before we die, just enjoy what time is left.

[@edwardfoehring8827]

Horse and buggy !

[@fuccasound3897]

he mentions a reduction in economic activity like that would be bad, surely that's a good thing, since economic activity is a driver of climate change?

[@paxwallacejazz]

It's too late to fix it we are on a run away train and the bridge is out. There is a 40 year gap between CO2 and it's effect so we are dealing with late 70s CO2 level. So that's alone discounting losing our arctic ice and it's albedo plus methane from thawing permafrost and the fact that our oceans are still masking global warming MAN we are extinct so very soon. It will shock us all how unmercifully and quickly these exponential changes will come.

[@fuccasound3897]

@@paxwallacejazz yeah, i know, i left an environmental science degree in 1983, trying to point this stuff out to people has been pointless over the years since. Its the fact that the use of resources and energy in the quest for economic growth has pushed the climate to the point where the changes you mention are irreversible and exponential. Try having a conversation with an economist (who think of themselves as the 'masters of the world') and you will realise not only that the planet is fucked but that economists bear a great deal of responsibility for it and that the population of this planet are sheep for going along with them and so are equally responsible. That's pretty much all of us. Me, you, your neighbours, your friends....

[@edwardfoehring8827]

No what is it ?

[@kissmyassbest]

Is this a region channel?

[@ADEehrh]

Did they beg for $?... then no!

[@emteepaemtraypa1167]

It got to this point because there are no government regulations.

[@cooltu2000]

I hope cayman island goes down with all that rich ppl money

[@End-Result]

And this was in pre-covid times everyone

[@santiagosenoran1217]

Thanks kurtis baute

[@edwardfoehring8827]

Bring it on !

[@roberthammond4718]

you won't have to worry about weather you can work out side or not because when that times comes plants animals insects will be long gone the have problems with adaption with out airconditioning

[@anaccount8474]

It's assumed that the end of life is an intrinsically bad thing. However, consider how much suffering will be avoided if the planet dies. The sum total of suffering that living things have experienced on this planet is incomprehensible. Billions of billions of living creatures have lived with perpetual hunger and fear of predators, and have died painful horrific deaths: eaten alive, drowned, starved, burned alive, stuck in mud, poisoned, killed by parasites, killed by disease. It's horrific. Not the most popular opinion, but it's worth considering.

[@kingv-raptor840]

You don’t know the difference between death and suffering from natural causes vs the avoidable deaths from not literally destroying the planet. You are saying that’s it’s better to destroy the planet cause we can’t completely end suffering in the world instead of trying the lower the amounting suffering as much as possible. It’s like saying if someone breaks their legs it’s better to kill them off to end their pain instead of giving them crutches and taking care of them until they get better.

[@arthurribeiro8638]

I am truly sorry for what I am about to say, but: He is really attractive.

[@brianfuller6994]

This guy if he was tell the truth then he would say we will not be hear in the next 7 years and really nothing can be done to stop it. If it does not happen and some how things improve we will celebrate but people for real it there is nothing that could be done to cool our burning hot planet.

[@edwardfoehring8827]

Alls fare in luv and stsrvation.

[@phaedracollins6051]

".....And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth......."

[@petertaylor8503]

Yep and on top of the horse sat the a "Pale Rider" - fella named Clint Eastwood...don't sweat it, the earth will be fine with or without us...

[@brpawankumariyengar4227]

How long do we have to wait to see the effects he mentioned ???? I see nothing of that. I only see clear blue skies, good rain and plenty of water in rivers. Also the beach that I went to is in good shape. So where exactly is the problem ????

[@ADEehrh]

The world is larger then your backyard! 🙄

[@brpawankumariyengar4227]

Aaron E ..... please see my viewpoint ... I went to a beach and if the sea level had been high ... the beach would have been smaller and that was not the case .... it seemed same size as my childhood. Also I did check a river and saw good amount of water in there. I am just informing what I saw first hand.

[@ShaneyElderberry]

Hello Pawan, the timescale is determined by the degrees of increase. At 4-5°C increase, Kolkata would become unlivable at 56°C. Jakarta, Hong Kong, and other sea level cities would be partly underwater, and many of the lands around the equator will become perpetually arid. In the northern hemisphere, Scandinavia, Canada, and Russia would feature warm temperate climates.

[@bajabell]

Follow the $$$$$$$$$ ......... !!!

[@geoffreyvoeth3993]

The problem is religion. Just try telling a religious man he can only make two kids in his entire lifetime.

[@edwardfoehring8827]

Avid hunter and fisherman , if i have to i will resort to cannibalism!

[@erwin643]

No you won't! You better not try to eat me, anyway.

[@christopherellis2663]

Yep, you're wasting your breath. Those who die will be from their own heedlessness, for the would be unprepared.

[@doughahn2566]

His units make no sense. 9 sq meters is not a volume of ice. I agree with him but if he makes nonsense arguments then it's easy to discredit him.

[@petertremblay3725]

The guy is clearly there to sell books and nothing else!

[@russell4824]

Doug I absolutely with you, this kind of reporting opens the door for the label "alarmist" and what does he mean by "melt about 1,000 feet of Arctic Ice"?

[@edwardfoehring8827]

I know schools are dumming us down !

[@edwardfoehring8827]

Scare tactics !

[@nick000002]

I wish

[@petertremblay3725]

More like marketing

[@vikitheviki]

More like the truth..

[@paxwallacejazz]

Oh you're gonna be scared when you start starving.

[@petertremblay3725]

Dying is a joke but living with 7 billions idiot is hell!@@paxwallacejazz

[@1995texasaggie]

The world will end in 2012.

[@ADEehrh]

Thank you Nostradomus; go back to church!

[@1995texasaggie]

@@ADEehrh I'm making fun of pea brain AOC and horse teeth Beto. Save me a seat toward the back......at the earliest church service. :-)

[@GamingGeeseDnDLivePresents]

he blinks a lot ....

[@victorgrauer5834]

It is always "much worse than you think." This is the litany we've been hearing for the last 30 years. Another is "we have to do something NOW or it will be too late." This one goes WAY back. If the earliest hand-wringers were right, then it would certainly be "too late" by now, so we might as well all go home to cower in our basements while the world disintegrates around us. But hark. Along with all the predictions of certain doom we invariably hear yet another litany: "THERE IS STILL TIME to turn things around and save the planet." So even though we've done so little so far, it will NEVER be too late, because no matter how much worse things are than anyone thought in the past, there will always be time to spend trillions of dollars (per year), outlaw internal combustion autos, heat our homes (in the winter) with solar panels, raise taxes through the roof, drive up the cost of food and other essential supplies to the point that hardly anyone can afford them, and impose martial law so anyone who resists such draconian measures can be safely silenced and/or incarcerated. Is this "science" or utter insanity? Are we still living in a world formed by democracy, freedom of speech and common decency, or are we on the way to totalitarian government unparalleled since the heydays of Hitler and Stalin? Oh and by the way, there has been NO correlation between CO2 levels and world temperatures over the last 120 years. Nor has there been any unusual increase in hurricanes, droughts, rate of sea level rise, etc.: amoleintheground.blogspot.com/2018/05/thoughts-on-climate-change-part-6-let.html

[@bo8504]

gtfo please.

[@petertremblay3725]

Not saying the planet is not in a dire state but mainly i can recognize hypocrites who want to sell books to live the big life!

[@mediastarguest]

I just read this columnist's piece in today's NY Times International edition of 4 Nov. 22, "The Reality of new Covid subvariants." He seems to be so, so disappointed and frustrated that the Covid19 pandemic is over, though according to him it isn't yet.