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Henry Holt and Co.
April 2010
On Sale: April 13, 2010
272 pages
ISBN: 0805090568
EAN: 9780805090567
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Non-Fiction
"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.
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