El planeta inhspito: La vida despus del calentamiento / The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming - David Wallace-Wells

Una vez hemos reconocido que
nuestro mundo llega a su fin, qu podemos hacer?

Este sobrecogedor relato de
cmo estamos precipitando el planeta
hacia su Armagedn nos descubre amenazas inimaginables hasta en
nuestras peores pesadillas.

Es
peor, mucho peor, de lo que imaginas.

Hoy, la subida del nivel del mar es una
causa de alarma generalizada entre
aquellos que ya han abandonado el sueo pernicioso de que el calentamiento global es un mito. Sin
embargo, no es ni siquiera la punta
del gigantesco iceberg de horrores inimaginables que amenazan la vida
en la Tierra: incendios, huracanes,
sequas, inundaciones... Todas estas inquietantes manifestaciones del cambio
climtico, ya recurrentes para
millones de personas, son solo un adelanto de lo que est por
llegar: hambrunas, plagas, un aire
irrespirable, migraciones cada vez ms
masivas, el colapso econmico e incluso conflictos armados
globales.

Con una precisin y una lucidez que estremecen,
David Wallace-Wells construye el
relato caleidoscpico de las consecuencias que tendr, tan solo dentro de una
generacin, nuestra impasibilidad ante la crisis ecolgica. Incidiendo con crudeza en cmo
hemos fracasado al imaginar y, ante todo, promulgar un mejor porvenir,
El planeta inhspito nos
transporta a un futuro inminente y nos sirve la reflexin definitiva
de cmo hemos devastado nuestro propio
hogar; todo ello en clave de una ferviente y an ms apremiante llamada al
cambio.

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#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

With a new afterword

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 generation's 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-today's.

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-Wells's 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 generation's 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