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by Aaditya Singh | 02-02-2020 21:07
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Book Review A Story of the Future written (Print Version) and read (Audio book) by David Wallace-Wells 2019 Penguin Books #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon To quote the author hiimself... "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." The Uninhabitable Earth is recognised as an epoch and defining book. The book gives an insight as to what the future will be if things are allowed to continue the way that they are. The book is a warning almost with a scary tone. It highlights that sea levels rising is nothing compared to the dangers of global warming going forward including perils such as Food shortages, Climate wars, Refugee emergencies, and Economic devastation. The book discusses various controversial topics and has received a lot of critique for being too pessimistic or unrealistic but the author stands by his prediction and has even been backed up by some scientists. Some of these topics are related to how the climate crisis will transform global politics, how technology and nature will be affected and the effects this will have on us humans, the sustainability of capitalism and even the trajectory of human evolution. The author intends his book to be a call to action to empower today’s generation to make changes. This is further influenced by enhancing the power of fear which Wallace-Wells uses as a tool in his writing to scare or alarm the readers and encourage immediate action. He ensures that he gets his point across by going to the extreme of saying that extinction is also a possibility in the foreseeable future. My apologies for a late report. I wanted to read the book amidst end of term school work and exams, and then write the report. I encourage fellow members of the forum to get their hands on the book (Print or Audio version). Please follow the link in the sources part at the end of my report, to hear the author speak about the book. I would classify the book as fearful but at the same time hopeful in asking for positive action.Generally I am more in favor of positive ways of raising awareness but perhaps humankind needs a healthy dose of fear to mend their ways! Sources and References The book itself https://www.youtube.com/watch? |
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8 Comments
Hello
I hope you are fine
Thank you so much for this report
Yours
Ishma
Posted 11-02-2020 14:33
Hey Aaditya!!!
So pleased to know about such wonderful book on environment.. I wanna go through this book for sure ..
Thank you for sharing such wonderful report and the link for the audio of the book!!
Hope to know much more from you on coming days!!
Green cheers!!
Regards,
Jasmine Karki
Posted 08-02-2020 17:02
Hello Aaditya
I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works.
Thank you for your report about Book on Environment
Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Regards,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 08-02-2020 15:37
Hello Aaditya,
Thanks for recommending me such an awesome book . I read one of his article few weeks back in an English Daily but did not he was an author as well . I am surely gonna purchase this book .
With Regards and Green Cheers ,
Basanta Pandey
Posted 08-02-2020 14:01
Hey Aaditya,
it's Lisa again.
No apologies needed for your lateness:) I totally understand that you wanted to make sure you read the book thoroughly before writing a report about it.
I think the book you have chosen is really significant in today's literary pieces involving the environmental messages. I really think that it's the book that all of us should read!
Thank you so much for choosing the right book:)
As the author says throughout the book before our homes become uninhabitable, we have to act and it is in the hands of our future generations!
Green cheers for all and thanks for the great report:)
Posted 05-02-2020 22:14
Hello Aaditya
Your review of the book makes me want to read the book, and also recommend this book to many people around me. Many people think that nothing will happen at least in the near future since the story of global warming cannot be felt on the daily basis. However, as this book states, earth will turn into dreadful place if no action is taken. I will try this book in my free time.
Thank you for the great recommendation!
Posted 04-02-2020 16:49
Hello aaditya
I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works.
Thank you for your report about The Uninhabitable Earth- Book on Environment
Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Regards,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 03-02-2020 17:10
Hello Aaditya!!!!
Yay Finally someone recommended me the book and thanks for providing the link of the audio,
Today's generation is the change maker and their effort will make a change for sure,
Thanks for your report!!!
Keep writing such a great report!!!!!
Lets paint Green Together,
Yours,
Sandhya
Posted 03-02-2020 00:12