THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH Life After Warming David Wallace-West New York: Tim Duggan Books, February 2019 |
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ISBN-13 978-0-525-57670-9 | ||||
ISBN-10 0-525-57670-3 | 310pp. | HC | $27.00 |
I. Cascades | 1 |
II. Elements of Chaos | 37 |
Heat Death | 39 |
Hunger | 49 |
Drowning | 59 |
Wildfire | 70 |
Disasters No Longer Natural | 78 |
Freshwater Drain | 86 |
Dying Oceans | 94 |
Unbreathable Air | 100 |
Plagues of Warming | 109 |
Economic Collapse | 115 |
Climate Conflict | 124 |
"Systems" | 131 |
III. The Climate Kaleidoscope | 141 |
Storytelling | 143 |
Crisis Capitalism | 158 |
The Church of Technology | 171 |
Politics of Consumption | 185 |
History After Progress | 197 |
Ethics at the End of the World | 204 |
IV. The Anthropic Principle | 217 |
Acknowledgments | 229 |
Notes | 233 |
Index | 301 |