"La situation est pire, bien pire que ce que vous pouvez imaginer. Si votre inquiétude face au réchauffement climatique se résume à une crainte de la montée du niveau de la mer, vous ne faites qu'effleurer la surface des catastrophes à venir... " Écouter la science et faire connaître la vérité. David Wallace-Wells a décidé de se confronter aux réalités scientifiques du changement climatique. Non comme un spécialiste, un avocat ou un militant écologiste, mais comme un journaliste, un citoyen, un enquêteur.
Il a interviewé des dizaines de scientifi ques, lu des centaines d'articles parmi ceux publiés ces dix dernières années et collecté toutes les données qui tombaient, jour après jour, sur son fil d'actualité Twitter pour nous offrir une vue d'ensemble sur la situation. Et la situation est grave.
Pénuries alimentaires, sécheresses et inondations, incendies, océans à l'agonie... David Wallace-Wells étudie toutes les facettes des problèmes climatiques. Et, surtout, il démontre brillamment comment le réchauffement aura des conséquences directes sur tous les aspects de la vie humaine. Sans une révolution radicale de notre mode de vie, d'immenses parties de la Terre deviendront inhabitables et d'autres très inhospitalières dès la fin du siècle.
Si votre inquiétude face au réchauffement climatique se résume à une crainte de la montée du niveau de la mer, vous ne faites qu'effleurer la surface des catastrophes à venir. En Californie, les feux de forêt sévissent maintenant toute l'année, détruisant des milliers d'habitations. Les inondations déplacent des dizaines de millions de personnes chaque année dans le monde. Sans une révolution dans la façon dont des milliards d'êtres humains mènent leur vie, d'immenses parties de la Terre pourraient devenir inhabitables et d'autres très inhospitalières dès la fin du siècle.
David Wallace-Wells voyage dans notre futur proche. Il met en lumière les problèmes climatiques : pénuries alimentaires, réfugiés climatiques, etc. Mais, surtout, il démontre brillamment comment le réchauffement aura des conséquences directes sur presque tous les aspects de la vie humaine, sur la vie politique et culturelle des nations, sur le sens de l'Histoire.
La Terre inhabitable est à la fois une méditation sur la dévastation que nous avons provoquée et un appel passionné à l'action. De même que le monde a été amené au bord de la catastrophe en l'espace d'une vie, la responsabilité de l'éviter appartient maintenant aux jeunes générations.
#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 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker The New York Times Book Review Time NPR The Economist The Paris Review Toronto Star GQ The Times Literary Supplement The New York Public Library Kirkus Reviews It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An epoch-defining book ( The Guardian ) and this generations Silent Spring ( The Washington Post ), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it--the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation--todays. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet. --Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wellss outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too. -- The Economist Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the eerily banal language of climatology in favor of lush, rolling prose. --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times The book has potential to be this generations Silent Spring . --The Washington Post The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book. --Alan Weisman, The New York Review of 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 It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible--food shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation. An epoch-defining book ( The Guardian ) and this generations Silent Spring ( The Washington Post ), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it--the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation--todays. Praise for The Uninhabitable Earth The Uninhabitable Earth is the most terrifying book I have ever read. Its subject is climate change, and its method is scientific, but its mode is Old Testament. The book is a meticulously documented, white-knuckled tour through the cascading catastrophes that will soon engulf our warming planet. --Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times Riveting. . . . Some readers will find Mr. Wallace-Wellss outline of possible futures alarmist. He is indeed alarmed. You should be, too. --The Economist Potent and evocative. . . . Wallace-Wells has resolved to offer something other than the standard narrative of climate change. . . . He avoids the eerily banal language of climatology in favor of lush, rolling prose. --Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times The book has potential to be this generations Silent Spring . --The Washington Post The Uninhabitable Earth, which has become a best seller, taps into the underlying emotion of the day: fear. . . . I encourage people to read this book. --Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books
