Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

'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 manag
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Author/Artist:McKibben, Bill
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