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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The Paris climate accord targets are wildly unrealistic.
Chapter 3: The harmful effects of climate change spark chain reactions, causing even more warming.
Chapter 4: Extreme weather conditions are becoming the new normal.
Chapter 5: Climbing sea levels will inundate whole cities and nations.
Chapter 6: Runaway heating will unleash mass hunger and malnourishment.
Chapter 7: The hotter it gets, the more disease there will be.
Chapter 8: Collapsing air quality is suffocating us.
Chapter 9: Freshwater is becoming an increasingly scarce resource.
Chapter 10: Human conflict rises on a hotter, dirtier planet.
Chapter 11: New technologies give us ways to lessen these disasters, but they are impractical today.
Description
The Uninhabitable Earth (2019) is a terrifying rundown of the horrors which await in an ever-warming world. With poetic brilliance, Wallace-Wells draws from the latest research in climate science to give us an elegant final warning. Runaway wildfires, submerged cities, polluted air and global pandemics – these and other climate-induced catastrophes not only await in the very near future but in some cases have already arrived.
Who Should Listen
- Climate-conscious citizens who need it given to them straight
- Anyone seeking to understand the cutting edge of environmental science
- Everyone living on planet Earth