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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wallace-Wells, David, author.     Subjects     Nature -- Effect of human beings on.     Global warming -- Social aspects.     Climatic changes -- Social aspects.     Global environmental change -- Social aspects.     Environmental degradation -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wallace-Wells, David, author.       by title:      The uninhabitable ea...         MARC Display

The uninhabitable earth : life after warming / David Wallace-Wells. by Wallace-Wells, David, author. New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2019] Subjects Nature -- Effect of human beings on.   Global warming -- Social aspects.   Climatic changes -- Social aspects.   Global environmental change -- Social aspects.   Environmental degradation -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9780525576709 (hardcover) : 0525576703 (hardcover) Description:  310 pages ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century. In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await--food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today. Like An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring before it, The Uninhabitable Earth is both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Aiea Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.28 Wa Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.28 Wa Checked out 06/05/2024 Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.28 Wa Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 304.28 Wa Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.28 Wallace-Wells Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.28 Wa Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.28 Wa Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.28 Wa Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.28 Wa Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.28 Wa Checked In   Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 Next

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