We are headed into territory with no solid knowledge of what the final result will be. Wallace Wells lays out the possibilities- and the horrors of our stupidity. Excellent read. For example, he lays out the greed and stupidity of the fossil fuel companies, whose leaders and stockholders are happy to risk catastrophe as long as their portfolios grow. We need to stop them in their tracks. Wallace Wells holds nothing back. Time to fact the most important danger that is out there, and staring us in the face.

I have two enduring philosophical problems with books like this. The first is that a barrage of mind-numbing (though certainly real, measurable and relevant) facts and statistics tend to lead to a near-fatal case of "paralysis of analysis" and, second, the facts and stories, as dire and horrifying as they are, are not dire and horrifying enough. The pages of the book written not that long ago, are already approaching obsolescence if not a charming, child-like optimism regarding both the immensity (and ever expanding and intrusive feedback loops) of climate change and the even more disheartening capability - if not capacity - of humans at any level to respond to it. That something as obvious - and measurable - and impactful - as weather should become a political issue will be a prevailing topic of conversation in the future . If we have a future. And that is one of the conclusions of "The Uninhabitable Earth" - this is no geothermal phase, this is no natural cycle. Once the polar ice caps melt (and the sea level rises, and the saline level of the ocean is changed and the oceanic currents {thermahaline to use the technical term - slow or even stop, our (largely) predictable seasons essentially stop, agriculture ends, our usable/arable land mass shrinks dramatically - and permanently. Entire states - and several low-lying nations - will disappear entirely. Greta Thunberg, the teen Swedish climate activist describes the world as "on fire" - but even that is not enough. Fires consume and are extinguished. Reclamation - by nature or human beings - is possible - if not "natural". But once the polar ice caps are gone, they are gone. As good as humans are at problem avoidance, we are also good (at least as a species) at adapting. The human, financial and social cost of our climate neglect will be beyond measurement (far more than the combined GDP of every nation on earth) but humanity, ever clumsy but somehow resilient. The question is, in one generation, can we re-stabilize our climate in time or will the earth be thrown into semi-constant climate turmoil, when we, a generation with the means, at a pivotal time could have made a difference? Either way it will be our legacy.

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Wallace-Wells' book is dark and foreboding but it is impossible to dismiss its importance. Extremely well-researched, with every aspect and impact of climate change covered thoughtfully and in depth. Meant to inform and to jar the reader out of any last vestiges of denial, but references no junk science nor resorts to gratuitous scare tactics. It is political when necessary. And yes, there are some positions of hope taken, though you have to work your way through the book to understand why hope is a reasonable conclusion. Does his own narration, which is excellent.