The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells: Facts Put to Sense

 

“Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think”

The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet.” —Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times

 

Our group of contributors have collected some of the most pressing climate facts from The Uninhabitable Earth. Facts rather than predictions, so that we can know what climate change is doing today, and not just tomorrow.

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Unbreathable Air

Water Scarcity

Drowning

Heat Death

Sea Level Rise

Spread of Diseases