PositiveThe GuardianThere is much to learn from this book. From media and scientific reports of the past decade, Wallace-Wells sifts key predictions and conveys them in vivid prose ... For those not steeped in news about climate change, this is a lively introduction to both the latest predictions and their uncertainties. Wallace-Wells not only summarises recent projections, but excavates important unifying themes ... If you’ve snoozed through or turned away from the climate change news, this book will waken and update you. If you’re steeped in the unfolding climate drama, Wallace-Wells’s voice and perspective will be stimulating ... The valuable core of the book is contained within a rind of unnecessary exaggeration ... This is not a book of solutions. Wallace-Wells outlines some political and economic pathways – taxes and public investments – but gives them little exposition. He’s dismissive about the value of changes in individual behaviours ... The book’s greatest omission is a lack of fieldwork. In its pages, we don’t go into the streets to talk to people, to hear their insights and perspectives.
