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Eaarth : Making a Life on a Tough New Planet book

Eaarth : Making a Life on a Tough New Planet book

Eaarth : Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben

Eaarth : Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
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Author: Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben
Number of Pages: 288 pages
Published Date: 15 Mar 2011
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780312541194
File Name: Eaarth.Making.a.Life.on.a.Tough.New.Planet.pdf
Download Link: Eaarth Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
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"Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." Barbara KingsolverTwenty 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."

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