MixedEartherIt’s a gut punch of facts and figures ... The book wants you to freak out ... If you, like me, feel an agitated energy after finishing it, you might also be left wondering how to focus that energy ... the litany of terrors is enough to beat you down, both emotionally and intellectually. Especially seeing as the book offers relatively little guidance on what the likelihood of malady X will occur is ... But the piece that could have really brought climate terror home for me—the stories of human suffering and resilience, from Syria to Panama Beach to Paradise—is largely absent. From The Uninhabitable Earth’s God’s-eye view, the huddled masses are just that ... The Uninhabitable Earth could well tip the scales for some people to finally give a damn about climate change ... But human context for that panic can help direct the actions people take. So can offering guidance on what people can do, and yet such guidance is in short supply ... For those steeped in climate literature and on the alarmed end of the spectrum already, The Uninhabitable Earth is a clarion call to redouble their efforts ... But without context of how likely shit is to hit the fan, human narratives to ground the collective suffering, or what people can do to stop it all, I worry the nightmares of Wallace-Wells’ tome could be lost in the increasing stormy sea of white noise.