El planeta inhóspito

Today, sea level rise is a cause for widespread alarm among those who have already given up the pernicious dream that global warming is a myth. However, it is not even the tip of the gigantic iceberg of unimaginable horrors that threaten life on Earth: fires, hurricanes, droughts, floods... All these disturbing manifestations of climate change, already recurring for millions of people, are just a preview of what is to come: famines, plagues, unbreathable air, increasingly massive migrations, economic collapse and even global armed conflicts. With shuddering precision and lucidity, David Wallace-Wells builds a kaleidoscopic account of the consequences that our indifference to the ecological crisis will have, just one generation from now. Harshly emphasizing how we have failed to imagine and, above all, promulgate a better future, The Inhospitable Planet transports us to an imminent future and serves us as a definitive reflection on how we have devastated our own home; all this in the key of a fervent and even more pressing call for change.