Comments on: Book review – The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future/2019/03/27/book-review-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-story-of-the-future/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:38:25 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Earth Transformed: An Untold History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/03/27/book-review-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-story-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-84488Fri, 31 Mar 2023 11:20:27 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3384#comment-84488[…] rapid globalisation, consumerism, and population growth, Frankopan gives Wallace-Well’s book The Uninhabitable Earth a run for its money. He relates many shocking facts and forecasts regarding our environmental […]

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]]>By: Book review – Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/03/27/book-review-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-story-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-26881Thu, 02 Sep 2021 11:19:04 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3384#comment-26881[…] especially as the contents of this book are alarming but not alarmist. As mentioned in my review of The Uninhabitable Earth, such phrases draw attention but risk backfiring: if people perceive it to be hyperbole there is […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/03/27/book-review-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-story-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-13919Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:03:28 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3384#comment-13919[…] a longer section along the lines of Lynas’s Our Final Warning and Wallace-Well’s The Uninhabitable Earth, but clearly, this book has no interest in dwelling on the catastrophes […]

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]]>By: Book review – Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/03/27/book-review-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-story-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-13754Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:38:42 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3384#comment-13754[…] books are lamenting our current predicament. Complaining is easy. Whether they are actually worth reading stands or falls on their proposed solutions. This brings […]

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]]>By: Book review – Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/03/27/book-review-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-story-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-6597Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:58:31 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3384#comment-6597[…] books are lamenting our current predicament. Complaining is easy (see also my review of The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future). Whether they are actually worth reading stands or falls on their proposed solutions. This brings […]

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]]>By: Book review – Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/03/27/book-review-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-story-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-5132Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:57:19 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3384#comment-5132[…] activists hope. Frightening people into action rarely works (see my somewhat sceptical review of The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future). DeSombre discusses caveats of options such as feedback, prompts (reminders to e.g. recycle), and […]

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]]>By: Book review – Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/03/27/book-review-the-uninhabitable-earth-a-story-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-3861Fri, 03 May 2019 15:56:49 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3384#comment-3861[…] Extinction: An Unnatural History), not to mention the impact of climate change (see my review of The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future). And that is with 7.6 billion people of which only a part is […]

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