“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” Kafka said.
Reading Sir David Attenborough’s autobiography, I realized that while that book touches almost all of the key points briefly, it’s not enough to change anyone’s stand while they’re chewing nails idling on the fence. The crisis is so great that the time for gentle nudges is gone. It’s compulsory that we get the facts about our current world hammered into us, for the time of guillotine is nigh.

“The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming” is one such book. I wrote a reaction post right after I was finished. Here it is :-

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The book feels nightmarish, more scary than anything I came across in fiction, yes fiction, but none of it is fictional, rather probable speculation based on statistics and observations.

I had no idea how gruesome the effects of climate change can be, no one can imagine without prior knowledge on the subject. What's scarier is that the powerful people who can change the course of our fate aren't aware, are in denial, or don't want the course to change towards a brighter path simply because of the flawed indicator of growth like GDP or cost cutting. You can see that just by looking around, this is basic knowledge. Won’t have to read the book for it.

David Wallace-wells talks in detail regarding the ways climate change can affect us, resulting in the extinction of the species. Food scarcity, heat waves, other natural calamities, water shortage, economical depression, mutation of diseases, air pollution and its aftermath, etc may seem like the author wants to throw every disaster he can think of towards us and he does, aptly, with enough real-world phenomenons to back his speculations. 60% of the book is his writings and the other 40% is citations from various sources and research he mentioned.

I also listened to this while reading the text. I'd appreciate it if he didn't narrate the book himself (passable but not good at it). A professional narrator would do a much better job.

While Wallace’s bleak peek into the future is not inevitable, as Sir Attenborough in his book shows us the possible ways we can counter the climate change ensuring biodiversity. Yet there’s a great chance a lot of it will indeed come true. Perhaps we are too late. No one knows how much abuse the planet can take before it plummets us for good, the variables are just too great. But I wouldn’t want to test its limit. So shouldn’t you. If you’re shaking your head, I understand. I was there too. And if you doubt me and think of my urgency as mere paranoia, I urge you to give this one a try.