Displaying 1 of 1 2023 Format: Book Author: Wallace-Wells, David, author. Title: The uninhabitable earth : life after warming / David Wallace-Wells. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Delacorte Press, [2023] Copyright Date ©2023 Description: xi, 157 pages ; 21 cm 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 ; 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. 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 -- Provided by publisher. Interest Age Level: Ages 12 and up Audience 1320L Lexile Contents Cascades -- Elements of chaos : Heat death ; Hunger ; Drowning ; Wildfire ; Freshwater drain ; Dying oceans ; Unbreathable air ; Plagues of warming ; Economic collapse ; Climate conflict ; "Systems" -- The climate kaleidoscope : Storytelling ; The church of technology ; Politics of consumption ; History after progress ; Ethics at the end of the world -- The anthropic principle. Notes: Includes index. This work is based on The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, originally published in hardcover by Tim Duggan Books, New York, in 2019 and in paperback by Tim Duggan Books, in slightly different form, in 2020. Adapted for young adults. Subjects: Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Juvenile literature. Global warming -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature. Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature. Global environmental change -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature. Environmental degradation -- Social aspects -- Juvenile literature. Genre: Young adult nonfiction. LCCN: 2023027239 ISBN: 9780593483572 059348357X 9780593483558 0593483553 * 9780593483565 Other Number: 1401909649 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 Control Number: 2543490 Request It Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Find It Author Biography David Wallace-Wells is a columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine. He has been a national fellow at the New America Foundation and was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. He lives in New York City. - (Random House, Inc.) Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
