The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

by David Wallace-Wells

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A harrowing account of the cascading consequences of climate change, from heat death to economic collapse to civilizational unraveling. Wallace-Wells synthesizes the latest climate science into a vivid, urgent narrative about the near-future world we are building through inaction.

Published:: 2019
Pages:: 310

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In this collection, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming references 4 other books.

It draws on The Sixth Extinction, Silent Spring and Collapse.

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Builds on Kolbert's documentation of mass extinction events to show how climate change accelerates biodiversity loss at unprecedented rates

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The Sixth Extinction

by Elizabeth Kolbert

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Extends Carson's warnings about environmental poisoning to the planetary scale of atmospheric carbon accumulation

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Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

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Echoes Diamond's analysis of civilizational collapse from environmental degradation, now applied to the global climate crisis

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Collapse

by Jared Diamond

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Applies Meadows' systems thinking framework to demonstrate how climate feedback loops create cascading, nonlinear catastrophes

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Thinking in Systems

by Donella Meadows

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