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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
McKibben's earliest warnings about global warming went largely unheeded. In this book, he argues that we can meet the challenges of a new "Eaarth"--still recognizable but suddenly and violently out of balance--by 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 an unprecedented scale.
Author
Language
English
Description
"This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift in the way we relate to nature is more relevant than ever. McKibben writes of our earth's environmental cataclysm, addressing such core issues as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 227 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicle of the author's search for hopeful signs that it is possible to save the environment, following his travels from his Adirondack home to the Brazilian city of Curitiba, to Kerala, a state in Southern India, all places where people are living less earth-damaging lives.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
254 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the groundbreaking, bestselling author of The End of Nature, a controversial and provocative book arguing that to help the planet we should begin to voluntarily limit our numbers.
Bill McKibben's books and essays on our environment -- physical and spiritual -- have shaped and spurred debate since The End of Nature was published in 1989. Then, he sounded one of the earliest alarms about global warming; the decade of science since has proved his...
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