Giving Compass' Take:

• Fast Company highlights a new book, 'The Uninhabitable Earth', which argues that the immediate repercussions of climate change are far more dire than we can comprehend.

• How can the information in this book be more widely spread? How will policymakers drive powerful climate changes? 

• Learn about young leaders who are demanding global climate action. 

“It is worse, much worse, than you think.” So begins The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells’s new book about how climate change will reshape every aspect of our lives if the planet crosses the threshold of two degrees of warming, or three degrees, or four (or even eight).

At two degrees Celsius–a threshold that we are very much on track to cross–ice sheets could pass the tipping point for collapse, raising sea levels and flooding cities. Half of the world’s population could face deadly heat waves at least 20 days each year. At three degrees, wildfires in the U.S. could burn an area six times larger than today. Global warfare and conflict could double. At four degrees, the costs of climate impacts would top $550 trillion, twice the world’s current wealth. If emissions continue on the current path, we’ll hit four degrees by the end of the century.

Read the full article about creating climate change panic by Adele Peters at Fast Company.