Eaarth

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• I "Bill McKibben may be the world's best ^een journalist What really sets Eaarth apart from other green books is McKibben's prescription for survival. This won't be just a matter of replacing a few lightbuibs." —TIME
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ILL McKIBBEN has a stark and sobering message about our world: We've waited too long to stop the advance of global warming, and massive change is not only unavoidable but already underway. Our old famihar 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.
McKibben shows that we can't rely on old habits and the false promise of endless economic growth to address the binds and traps that characterize this new planet. Instead, our hope depends on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community that will... Tovább

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• I "Bill McKibben may be the world's best ^een journalist What really sets Eaarth apart from other green books is McKibben's prescription for survival. This won't be just a matter of replacing a few lightbuibs." —TIME
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ILL McKIBBEN has a stark and sobering message about our world: We've waited too long to stop the advance of global warming, and massive change is not only unavoidable but already underway. Our old famihar 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.
McKibben shows that we can't rely on old habits and the false promise of endless economic growth to address the binds and traps that characterize this new planet. Instead, our hope depends on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community that will allow us to weather trouble on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance.
"Superbly written McKibben is at his best when offering an elegant tour of what is already going wrong and likely to get even worse Eaarth is a manifesto for radical measures." —THE NATIONAL INTEREST
"Bill McKibben [is] probably the nation's leading environmentalist Important strands of environmental thought merge in [Eaarth] The urgency of his moral advocacy demands attention." —THE BOSTON GLOBE
• BILL McKIBBEN is the author of The End of Nature, Deep Economy., and numerous other books. He is the founder of the environmental organizadons 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. Vissza