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David Wallace-Well's "The Uninhabitable Earth" covers some of these points, though they're exaggerated here (don't get me wrong: the unexaggerated versions in t
by cranekam 6y ago
David Wallace-Well's "The Uninhabitable Earth" covers some of these points, though they're exaggerated here (don't get me wrong: the unexaggerated versions in the book are still fucking terrifying).
Guardian review of said book:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/27/the-uninhabitable-earth-review-david-wallace-wells https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/27/the-uninhabita...
I like the last paragraph:
"You could call [the book] alarmist, and you would not be wrong. (In the closing pages, Wallace-Wells himself accepts the charge as “fair enough, because I am alarmed”.) But to read The Uninhabitable Earth – or to consider in any serious way the scale of the crisis we face – is to understand the collapse of the distinction between alarmism and plain realism. To fail to be alarmed is to fail to think about the problem, and to fail to think about the problem is to relinquish all hope of its solution."