#46 in Popular science
The Uninhabitable Earth
- 336
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 5 weeks on the list, peaked at #6
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Our view
David Wallace-Wells’s “The Uninhabitable Earth” gives a sobering, well-informed account of what global warming may do to life on the planet. The book grew out of a magazine article of his and spends more than three hundred pages on the consequences. Some readers finish it more anxious than they began and, while admiring the prose, find it wordier than the subject needs and repetitive in places.
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About the book
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming is a 2019 non-fiction book by David Wallace-Wells about the consequences of global warming. It was inspired by his New York magazine article "The Uninhabitable Earth" (2017).
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 133 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 48% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Popular science average of 8.3. That is how 8.1 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 9 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 124 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Uninhabitable Earth?
It has 336 pages — longer than 50% of the ranked books in Popular science.
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