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Part I: Cascades

• NOTE: The following version of the book was used in the creation of this Lesson Plan: Wallace-Wells, David. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. Tim Duggan Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, 2019. Kindle Edition.

• The Uninhabitable Earth is a nonfiction book by American journalist David Wallace-Wells in which the author looks at the myriad of tragic outcomes that our planet will undergo as a result of global warming due to carbon emissions.

• The book is divided into four main sections with subchapters in Parts II and III.

• Part I: Cascades is a short introductory chapter that establishes David Wallace-Wells’s thesis with the book, even in the first line: “It is worse, much worse, than you think” (5).

• Wallace-Wells describes climate change as not a slow and creeping monster that will gradually overtake humankind, but...

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