The Uninhabitable Earth : Life After Warming

Resumen del libro

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possiblefood shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.

An ';epoch-defining book' (The Guardian) and ';this generation's Silent Spring' (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earthis both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through itthe ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress.

The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generationtoday's.

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