Marsha Woerner reviewed The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
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4 stars
On the one hand, he presents an alarming and panicking picture. On the other hand, the situation IS alarming and panicking.
On the one hand, there are no possible fixes presented. On the other hand, that does not appear to be the point of the book; it is, after all, theoretically presenting life AFTER the warming.
The first two sections seem to point out, what we're doing wrong about the climate, and, as I said, it does paint a drastic picture. The last two sections address other people's perspectives and philosophies. I like the fourth section which is primarily philosophy the best. And, the book does little to address possibilities of misinterpreting the current thoughts about the climate, although it does mention such possibilities – but only and a very passing and extremely unlikely possible case.
Overall, I wasn't overly happy with the seemingly alarmist nature of the first section, …
On the one hand, he presents an alarming and panicking picture. On the other hand, the situation IS alarming and panicking.
On the one hand, there are no possible fixes presented. On the other hand, that does not appear to be the point of the book; it is, after all, theoretically presenting life AFTER the warming.
The first two sections seem to point out, what we're doing wrong about the climate, and, as I said, it does paint a drastic picture. The last two sections address other people's perspectives and philosophies. I like the fourth section which is primarily philosophy the best. And, the book does little to address possibilities of misinterpreting the current thoughts about the climate, although it does mention such possibilities – but only and a very passing and extremely unlikely possible case.
Overall, I wasn't overly happy with the seemingly alarmist nature of the first section, and I found the third section sort of uninteresting and, in many ways, uninformative. The last section really did redeem it for me. For one thing, it left me a lot on my mind and to think about, a very important aspect for most nonfiction or scientific books to me. The book is definitely better than I started out believing.