![]() Wallace-Wells identifies a tendency, even among those of us who think we are already sufficiently terrified of the future, to be strangely complacent about the figures. The book’s longest section, entitled Elements of Chaos, is composed of 12 short and brutal chapters, each of which foretells a specific dimension of our forecast doom, and whose titles alone – Heat Death Dying Oceans Unbreathable Air Plagues of Warming – are enough to induce an honest-to-God panic attack. Writing at length, he is even more remorseless in his delineation of what the not nearly distant enough future probably holds for us. The book expands on a viral article, also titled The Uninhabitable Earth, which Wallace-Wells published in New York in the summer of 2017, and which frightened the life out of everyone who read it. “It is,” as he puts it in the book’s first line, “worse, much worse, than you think.” But do you truly understand the scale of the tribulations we face? David Wallace-Wells, author of the distressingly titled The Uninhabitable Earth, is here to tell you that you do not. As someone who reads the news and is sensitive to the general mood of the times, you have a general sense of what we’re looking at. You already know that your children, and your children’s children, if they are reckless or brave enough to reproduce, face a vista of rising seas, vanishing coastal cities, storms, wildfires, biblical floods. You already know the weather has gone weird, the ice caps are melting, the insects are disappearing from the Earth. ![]()
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