Reddit reviews The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells

https://www.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576703

Yeah, same general theme struck me today when I saw Bill McKibben had tweeted about on Twitter: House backs stiffer penalties for those who damage pipelines. He summarized:

> Texas aims to make pipeline protest a third-degree felony, same as attempted murder.

It's so maddening to see them getting away with such huge offenses and then successfully going after protesters. I tweeted back:

> Hmmm. And what kind of penalty do they advocate for acts that damage or impede the operation of the entire earth ecosystem, our global critical infrastructure of air, water and life, putting the lives of billions at risk?

By the way, since you're speculating on what happens if the UN report is right, I recommend David Wallace-Wells' book The Uninhabitable Earth. There are actually multiple scenarios in the UN report, but the book sorts through that variation.

Thanks, everybody! It's been a great few hows, but that's all for now.

Hope I may have opened a few eyes about the scale and urgency of this crisis, and that you will check out my book (https://www.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576703) and find me on Twitter (@dwallacewells).

Thanks again, Reddit!

I think David Wallace-Wells’ the Uninhabitable Earth does a great job of giving a frank and sober perspective on where we are and how unlikely it is we will escape collapse. Because he works for New York Magazine, it’s a relatively mainstream book (at least compared to John Michael Greer or Derrick Jenson).

https://www.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576703/ref=nodl_

Speaking of which. This here is another very good book on the long-term impacts of Climate Change. Very well written and frighteningly thorough on the range of issues we'll be facing over the next century.

That and it's becoming profitable to feed off climate hysteria/extinction panic. Like how plenty of movies and media criticize capitalism and point out the obvious issues, all while holding ties and profits for said problematic entities.

People are waking up and even that awakening is being cannibalized for profit. Isn't capitalism clever and cruel.

Edit: Case in point

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending


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The place to look for a reasonably credible look at worst-case outcomes is this book

It you want to understand why people don't accept climate change, you have to look at psychology, not climate science.

No amount of evidence will convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. A single piece of (pseudo)evidence for their position is enough to let someone resist 1000 pieces of real evidence against it.

I would start by reading these two books

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Even-Think-About-Climate/dp/163286102X

https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0307455777

And if you want to scare them stupid (or yourself), read this

https://www.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576703

It's the scariest work of non-fiction that I have read by a long way.

I fear for the optimists like yourself who believe that the problem will solve itself so easily through 'markets and investors'. Just picked up these two books and I don't agree with you at all that the world is headed the way you think.

Well, IPCC' is for the "best case" set of scenarii. They don't account for the Clathrate gun hypothesis and mostly discard Thermohaline shutdown.

If both were to happen at full blast, then the worst possible outcome sits around +70m sea level rise and +12°C average within a few centuries. In a lifetime, maybe the first 20 meters could happen, and +4 or +5°C is wayy more likely than +1,5°C. Some even start talking about +8°C in a century and nearly twice that (read +14°C) in two.

You may want to read The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming if you're really into depressing projections.