The Uninhabitable Earth

Resumen del libro

An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening StandardIt is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and if your anxiety about it is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. Over the past decades, the term "Anthropocene" has climbed into the popular imagination - a name given to the geologic era we live in now, one defined by human intervention in the life of the planet.

But however sanguine you might be about the proposition that we have ravaged the natural world, which we surely have, it is another thing entirely to consider the possibility that we have only provoked it, engineering first in ignorance and then in denial a climate system that will now go to war with us for many centuries, perhaps until it destroys us. In the meantime, it will remake us, transforming every aspect of the way we live-the planet no longer nurturing a dream of abundance, but a living nightmare.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B David Wallace-Wellsx{0026}lt;/B es un periodista neoyorquino graduado en historia por la Universidad de Brown. Es editor adjunto de la revista x{0026}lt;I New York Magazinex{0026}lt;/I y ha ocupado este mismo cargo en x{0026}lt;I The Paris Reviewx{0026}lt;/I , donde ha trabajado con autores del calibre de Ann Beattie y Jonathan Franzen. A su vez, Wallace-Wells ha colaborado con x{0026}lt;I Wiredx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Harper'sx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I The Guardianx{0026}lt;/I . En sus artículos escribe sobre ciencia y cultura y, muy especialmente, sobre el cambio climático en el contexto de nuestro futuro más inminente, por el que se mantiene tan cauto como esperanzado.x{0026}lt;/P