Thinking about green living and environmental protection through the book "Lifeless Earth"

The book "Lifeless Earth". Photo: Provided by the publisher

"Global warming" is an issue that has long been of concern to scientists and countries.

The book "Lifeless Earth" presents problems that occur around global warming such as floods, forest fires, famine, drought, ice melting... as well as providing predicted figures for each problem in each region when the temperature increases.

The book is a warning to everyone, and also a message to humanity, that if we do not make an effort to change, there will come a time when the earth will be an "uninhabitable" place.

The book is a presentation of the scientists who first theorized, then documented, the warming of the planet, and then set out to test and explain what that warming meant to the rest of us who live inside it.

That work extends from 19th-century scientists Eunice Foote and John Tyndall to 20th-century scientists Roger Revelle and Charles David Keeling, to hundreds of other scientists whose work appears at the end of this book.

Whatever progress is made in combating the onslaught of climate change in the coming decades, the author argues, will be thanks to their work and pioneering.

The author has spent two years immersed in climate science. As he writes his final pages, he knows enough to know that there is little chance that the climate crisis will be solved without a real confrontation with its growing horrors. But he still dreams of a truly global, even cosmic vision of the fate of the planet and those who hope to live on it.

He seriously holds out the possibility that, if we take that view of climate, we can still ensure a livable, adequate, equitable, and prosperous future for this world — at least a relatively livable, adequate, equitable, and relatively prosperous one...

There is no denying that climate change is a story we are all involved in, one that threatens to alter the lives of all of us if we do not change course.

“This gripping, terrifying, and ferocious book may be the most comprehensive account yet of how climate change will alter every aspect of our lives. Essential reading for this increasingly strange and unpredictable world,” said Amitav Ghosh, author of “Flood of Fire.”

“David Wallace-Wells argues that the impacts of climate change will be far more severe than most people realize, and he is right. ‘Lifeless Earth’ is timely and provocative,” said Elizabeth Kolbert, author of “The Sixth Extinction.”

David Wallace-Wells is a fellow at the New America Foundation, a columnist, and deputy editor of The Paris Review. He lives in New York City.

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