Dr. Melanie Mayes shares the alarm and urgency of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells in this episode of Books Sandwiched In. She explains how the author brings stark realities of our future climate into terrifying focus—the fragility of our situation and the myriad ways that our ability to survive is endangered by the climate we are creating.

Wallace-Wells is a national fellow at the New America foundation and a columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine. He was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review.

Mayes is a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory researching, among other topics, the part of the carbon cycle that takes place in soils.

Music credit: "Three Stories" by Blue Dot Sessions, CC BY-NC 4.0

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