Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
by Bill McKibben
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0805090568
- ISBN 13
- 9780805090567
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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.
Synopsis
Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature , Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age , and Deep Economy . A former staff writer for the New Yorker , he writes often for Harper's , National Geographic , and the New York Review of Books , among other publications. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, a global warming awareness campaign that in October 2009 coordinated what CNN called "the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history." He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.
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- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
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- SQ1429081
- Title
- Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
- Author
- Bill McKibben
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0805090568
- ISBN 13
- 9780805090567
- Publisher
- Times Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010-04
- Keywords
- ecology, environment, climate change
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science/Nature Writing;
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