kimlockhartga@beige.partyJust finished Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells.
It's accessibly informative about climate science. I did not agree with every assertion the author made about either the social sciences or political science, but those were minor quibbles.
I would definitely recommend this book. Even though it was published in 2019, the information is just as salient right now. If anything, the timeline of climate accelerated events has sped up more quickly than he anticipated, which is important in itself.
I had to take breaks, not because the author was too pessimistic. On the contrary, he seemed too optimistic. He predicted that we will work together to slow down the carbon we are putting in the atmosphere, with wholesale changes by entire countries.
There was a lot of academic discussion towards the end of the book, but the first part was my focus: what can we expect, how will it continue to unfold, and what do we need to demand to do something about it? Turns out that individual effort, though not nothing, will do little to slow down the worsening of the Climate Crisis. We need entire countries to divest from fossil fuels. Some are already doing that now, but we need the biggest countries, the major contributors to the problem, to convert to cleaner energy sources. We are in for a world of hurt, but we could make it hurt a lot less.