David Wallace-Wells is a columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine. He has been a national fellow at the New America Foundation and was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. He lives in New York City.
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE
“Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer
something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . .
. He avoids the ‘eerily banal language of climatology’ in favor of
lush, rolling prose.” —Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
“The book has potential to be this generation’s Silent
Spring.” —The Washington Post
“The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into
the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people
to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books
"Most of us know the gist, if not the details, of the climate
change crisis. And yet it is almost impossible to sustain strong
feelings about it. David Wallace-Wells has now provided the
details, and with writing that is not only clear and forceful, but
often imaginative and even funny, he has found a way to make the
information deeply felt." —Jonathan Safran Foer, author of
Everything is Illuminated
“A brilliant new book. . . . a remorseless, near-unbearable account
of what we are doing to our planet."—John Lanchester, The New
York Times Book Review
"David Wallace-Wells argues that the impacts of climate change will
be much graver than most people realize, and he's right. The
Uninhabitable Earth is a timely and provocative
work." —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
"An excellent book. . . . Not since Bill McKibben’s The End of
Nature thirty years ago have we been told what climate change will
mean in such vivid terms." —Fred Pearce, The Washington Post
"One of the very few books about our climate change emergency that
doesn't sugarcoat the horror." —William T. Vollmann, author of
No Immediate Danger
“Clearly and engagingly written, widely informed, with references
supplied in extensive and detailed endnotes, this overview of the
present status of the climate emergency and our response to it is
completely captivating: it is our own story, happening here and
now.”—Lydia Davis, Times Literary Supplement
“Powerfully argued. . . . A masterly analysis of why—with a world
of solutions—we choose doom.” —Nature
"This gripping, terrifying, furiously readable book is possibly the
most wide-ranging account yet written of the ways in which climate
change will transform every aspect of our lives, ranging from where
we live to what we eat and the stories we tell. Essential reading
for our ever-more-unfamiliar and unpredictable world." —Amitav
Ghosh, author of Flood of Fire
“Urgent and humane. . . . Wallace-Wells is an extremely adept
storyteller. . . . A horrifying assessment of what we might expect
as a result of climate change if we don’t change course.” —Susan
Matthews, Slate
“If we don’t want our grandchildren to curse us, we had better read
this book.” —Timothy Snyder, author of Black Earth
“Lively. . . . Vivid. . . . If you’ve snoozed through or turned
away from the climate change news, this book will waken and update
you. If you’re steeped in the unfolding climate drama,
Wallace-Wells’s voice and perspective will be stimulating.” —David
George Haskell, The Guardian
“Wallace-Wells has a gorgeous command of the English language, and
knows how to lay down prose that moves the reader at such a clip
that one feels like a Kentucky Derby–exhausted mare at the end of
each chapter. . . . Wallace-Wells sets himself and his analysis of
climate change apart from the predominant voices of leadership in
the field.” —Laurie Garrett, The Lancet
“Beautifully written. . . . As climate change encroaches, things
will get worse. Much worse. And David Wallace-Wells spares no
detail in explaining how.” —Kate Aronoff, Bookforum
"Relentless, angry journalism of the highest order. Read it and,
for the lack of any more useful response, weep." —Bryan
Appleyard, The Sunday Times
"A brilliant and unsparing analysis of a nightmare that is no
longer a distant future but our chaotic, burning present. Unlike
other writers who speak about human agency in the abstract,
Wallace-Wells zeros in on the power structures and capitalist
elites whose mindless greed is writing an obituary for our
grandchildren." —Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear
"A lucid and thorough description of our unprecedented crisis, and
of the mechanisms of denial with which we seek to avoid its fullest
recognition.” —William Gibson, author of Neuromancer
"David Wallace-Wells has produced a willfully terrifying polemic
that reads like a cross between Stephen King and Stephen
Hawking. Written with verve and insight and an eerie gusto for
its own horrors, it comes just when we need it; it could not be
more urgent than it is at this moment. I hope everyone will read it
and be afraid." —Andrew Solomon, author of The
Noonday Demon
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