EAN: 9780141988870

WALLACE-WELLS DAVID THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH

**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**  '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
Standard   Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times  Spectator and New Statesman
A Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019
Longlisted for the PEN   E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award   It 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.

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