The Uninhabitable Earth, Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells:
Page 42: This (environmental warmth) is among the things cosmologists mean when they talk about the utter improbability of anything as advanced as human intelligence evolving anywhere in a universe as inhospitable to life as this one; every uninhabitable planet out there is a reminder of just how unique a set of circumstances is required to produce a climate equilibrium supportive of life. No intelligent life that we know of ever evolved, anywhere in the universe, outside of the narrow Goldilocks range of temperatures that enclosed all of human evolution, and that we have now left behind, probably permanently.
P. 136: In a world of suffering, the self-interested mind craves compartmentalization, and one of the most interesting frontiers of emerging climate science traces the imprint left on our psychological well being by the force of global warming, which can overwhelm whatever methods we devise to cope – that is, the mental health effects of the world on fire. Perhaps the most predictable vector is trauma: between one quarter and one half of all those exposed to extreme weather events will experience them as an ongoing negative shock to their mental health. … Even those watching the effects from the sidelines suffer from climate trauma. “I don’t know of a single scientist as not having an emotional reaction to what has been lost,” Camille Parmesan, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, has said. GRIST has called the phenomena “climate depression,” Scientific American “environmental grief.”
I pulled these quotes as I came across them while reading this book. I’m not a “pro” reviewer but I do read a lot and have some opinions on what I read. I liked this book a great deal and recommend it. It was a hard read as most dystopian topics are, sometimes you need to take break from bludgeoning yourself. It is an important topic and Wallace-Wells is a fine writer. There is a lot of data points to cover and he portions them out well, and keeps the thread running with a minimum of repetition. His summary of the Anthropocene era at the end of the book is worth reading on its own, so you should seek it out and read that last chapter.