The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

eloquently written. really great synopsis on the state of the world in the face of the climate crisis through all affected and driving factors of climate change and environmental degradation. at times wallace-wells is a bit too pessimistic, but seldom is it unwarranted. highly recommended for those who want to better understand how climate change impacts social, ecological, scientific, economic, public health, and political variables of our civilization (and vice versa). warning, it is a tough and alarming read, but would say it is an invaluable one.

I really want everyone to stop whatever they're doing and read this book. After reading this book, climate change now overshadows all my other concerns. It is worse than I thought, and of course, I knew it was already currently happening but he compiles the data on current natural disasters in a way that clearly separates them from previous weather events.

I moved to Nebraska a year ago. Nebraska is not even mentioned in the book. And yet, we have what are apparently new permanent bodies of water since the flooding events that have occurred since I moved here a year ago. They look like lakes or little rivers and they've survived even our record-breaking hot summer. There were multiple floods in the Spring, and the flooding in March cost over a billion in damages, a lot of which I think has not actually been repaired. https://npr.org/2019/03/21/705408364/nebraska-faces-over-1-3-billion-in-flood-losses. The book was already out by then, but I bet we still wouldn't have made it into the book because so many more damaging weather events are occurring all the time now.