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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bill McKibbenPublish date:2011-03-15Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312541194ISBN-10:312541198UPC:9780312541194Book Category:Nature, House & Home, ScienceBook Subcategory:Environmental Conservation & Protection, Sustainable Living, Environmental ScienceSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCGV7AN7SR

"Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." --Barbara Kingsolver

Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.

That new planet is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to defend--think of the money that went to repair New Orleans, or the trillions it will take to transform our energy systems. But the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse depends on the stable planet we've managed to damage and degrade. We can't rely on old habits any longer.

Our hope depends, McKibben argues, on scaling back--on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community (in the neighborhood, but also on the Internet) that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale. Change--fundamental change--is our best hope on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance.
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martins Press-3PLISBN-13:9780312541194ISBN-10:312541198UPC:9780312541194Book Category:Nature, House & Home, ScienceBook Subcategory:Environmental Conservation & Protection, Sustainable Living, Environmental ScienceSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCGV7AN7SR
Bill McKibben is the author of Eaarth, The End of Nature, Deep Economy, Enough, Fight Global Warming Now, The Bill McKibben Reader, and numerous other books. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, and was among the first to warn of the dangers of global warming. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL

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