03717cam a2200505 i 4500 23190037 BJBSDDR 20240606130542.0 ta 230616s2019 enk j 001 0 eng 2023027239 9780141988870 0141988878 DLC eng rda DLC DLC eng pcc GF 75 W195u 2019 304.2/8 Wallace-Wells, David, 1982- 36403 The uninhabitable earth : a story of the future / David Wallace-Wells. [London] : Penguin Books, 2019 320 pages ; 20 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "Penguin Environment"--Page 4 of cover Edition statement from Afterword, page 229 First published as: The uninhabitable earth : life after warming. New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2019] Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Cascades II. Elements of chaos. Heat death ; Hunger ; Drowning ; Wildfire ; Disasters no longer natural ; Freshwater drain ; Dying oceans ; Unbreathable air ; Plagues of warming ; Economic collapse ; Climate conflict ; "Systems" III. The climate kaleidoscope. Storytelling ; Crisis capitalism ; The church of technology ; Politics of consumption ; History after progress ; Ethics at the end of the world IV. The anthropic principle 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. Provided by publisher. Ages 12 and up Delacorte Press Nature Effect of human beings on Juvenile literature. Global warming Social aspects Juvenile literature. Climatic changes Social aspects Juvenile literature. Global environmental change Social aspects Juvenile literature. Environmental degradation Social aspects Juvenile literature. Hombres Influencia sobre la naturaleza 35307 Calentamiento global Aspectos sociales 26417 Cambios climáticos Aspectos sociales 21429 Cambio ambiental global Aspectos sociales 1082 Degradación ambiental Aspectos sociales 35327 Online version: Wallace-Wells, David. Uninhabitable earth (adapted for young adults) Original trade paperback. New York : Delacorte Press, 2023 9780593483565 (DLC) 2023027240 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 121367 121367 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2024-06-04 0 GF 75 W195u 2019 00000180880 2024-06-04 00:00:00 1 2024-06-04 BK