Falter
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 can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control And then, drawing on McKibben s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap We re at a bleak moment in human history and we ll either confront that bleakness or watch the civilization our forebears built slip awayFalter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity. Free Download Books Falter author Bill McKibben – kino-fada.fr America is being held hostage by a curmudgeonly few who insist there is no man made climate change Meanwhile, the vast majority of both citizens and scientists seethes To that, Bill McKibben s Falter proposes two solutions solar panels everywhere, and forcing a cultural shift using nonviolent organizing He doesn t tackle the huge overpopulation issue, forcing gas and diesel vehicles off the road, mass extinctions, or even what to be aware of in the coming years It is rather odd for an envir America is being held hostage by a curmudgeonly few who insist there is no man made climate change Meanwhile, the vast majority of both citizens and scientists seethes To that, Bill McKibben s Falter proposes two solutions solar panels everywhere, and forcing a cultural shift using nonviolent organizing He doesn t tackle the huge overpopulation issue, forcing gas and diesel vehicles off the road, mass extinctions, or even what to be aware of in the coming years It is rather odd for an environmentalist s book.The first 200 pages all seem to be tangents He talks at length about the invention of gene splicing, Ray Kurtzweil s drugs, gene editing, inequality, artificial intelligence and libertarianism And Ayn Rand Lots of Ayn Rand She keeps coming back, again and again, because of her religion of selfishness It has spread to the political and commercial leadership of the country, and is a main cause for the country turning its back on climate change and pol...57th book for 2019.I would like to find nice things to say about this book, as I am sure McKibben s heart is in the right place, but this book is a hot mess McKibben s basic contention is that the human dream whatever that is is faltering We are rushing at high speed into climate change, designer babies and AI superlords, and this all has to do with the 1% having been weened on the cold dry objectivist nipples of Ayn Rand His solution, which isn t really spelt out in any detail, is solar pa 57th book for 2019.I would like to find nice things to say about this book, as I am sure McKibben s heart is in the right place, but this book is a hot mess McKibben s basic contention is that the human dream whatever that is is faltering We are rushing at high speed into climate change, designer babies and AI superlords, and this all has to do with the 1% having been weened on the cold dry objectivist nipples of Ayn ...Bill McKibben goes after muchthan climate change in this book He goes after the posthuman movement, libertarians, and the far right, oil companies, Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan This book takes in the sweeping panorama of the moment which is on the precipice and addresses most of the major players on the political stage at the moment McKibben is an environmentalist so he knows things are dire but his analysis of what got us here is some of the best political writing of the American scene and Bill McKibben goes after muchthan climate change in this book He goes after the posthuman movement, libertarians, and the far right, oil companies, Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan This book takes in the sweeping panorama of the moment which is on the precipice and addresses most of the major players on the political stage at the moment McKibben is an environmentalist so he knows things are dire but his analysis of what got us here is some of the best political writing of the American scene and his portrayal...A cri de coeur for the planet All the things we work on and worry about will be brought to naught if these existential concerns are not addressed The simultaneously worst and best thing is that the solutions exist and are feasible The clock is running down if greed warps your life, you assume it must warp everyone s. if bill mckibben s prescient warnings had been heeded some thirty years ago, perhaps his new book wouldn t be so urgent and grievous presuming the question asked in falter s subtitle isn t a rhetorical one, has the human game begun to play itself out , a preponderance of the evidence seems to offer a resounding, unequivocal yes in reply the 350.0rg founder s writing remains incisive and engaging, but falter isn t likely to find m if greed warps your life, you assume it must warp everyone s. if bill mckibben s prescient warnings had been heeded some thirty years ago, perhaps his new book wouldn t be so urgent and grievous presuming the question asked in falter s subtitle isn t a rhetorical one, has the human game begun to play itself out , a preponderance of the evidence seems to offer a resounding, unequivocal yes in reply the 350.0rg founder s writing remains incisive and engaging, but falter isn t likely to find many readers among the audience for whom it would be most necessary broadening the scope of existential threats beyon...This book presents a good overview of what McKibben refers to as the human game human life and our responsibility to the planet as well as future generations, and the factors that are shaping the present moment and threatening our future climate change, AI, corporate greed, gene modification McKibben makes some excellent critiques and his writing is engaging enough that it kept me interested throughout I particularly liked the notion of the game, even if it does seem rather romantic What This book presents a good overview of what McKibben refers to as the human game human life and our responsibility to the planet as well as future generations, and the factors that are shaping the present moment and threatening our future climate change, AI, corporate greed, gene modification McKibben makes some excellent critiques and his writing is engaging enough that it kept m...This book should be required reading for everyone it is by turns sobering, infuriating and eye opening and written throughout in clear, conversational and even at times humorous prose that manages to make a scientific study read like a page turner Bill McKibben begins Falter with a survey of the symptoms of climate change that are currently threatening our planet although I was familiar with these issues on some level already, he marshals so many frightening examples and statistics that the This book should be required reading for everyone it is by turns sobering, infuriating and eye opening and written throughout in clear, conversational and even at times humorous prose that manages to make a scientific study read like a page turner Bill McKibben begins Falter with a survey of the symptoms of climate change that are currently threatening our planet although I was familiar with these issues on some level already, he marshals so many frightening examples and statistics that the urgency of the situation hit me like never before Part 2 is a look at how we got here th...In some ways, this is the scariest book I have ever read McKibben s object is questioning whether humans because of natural limits or the consequences of our actions are doomed to plateau, regress, or die out.McKibben takes a panoramic view of the poor choices we have made and the various precipices we have driven ourselves off of as a species In the same way that Yuval Hariri whom he name drops multiple times in this short book chronicles all of the ways in which humans may be progressing In some ways, this is the scariest book I have ever read McKibben s object is questioning whether humans because of natural limits or the consequences of our actions are doomed to plateau, regress, or die out.McKibben takes a panoramic view of the poor choices we have made and the various precipices we have driven ourselves off of as a species In the same way that Yuval Hariri whom he name drops multiple times in this short book chronicles all of the ways in which humans may be progressing, McKibben gives us an oddly lighthearted survey of the dangers we face yet refuse to recognize It s scariest and most effective as an accounting of how utterly we have fucked ourselves, by way of fucking our planet, our only home and source of resources McKibben s goal of scaring his read...Scientists believe the end of the Cretaceous period came with a rock larger than Mt Everest traveling twenty times faster than a bullet slammed into the Gulf of Mexico leading to a 1,000ft tall tsunami and a blizzard of meteorites Scientists believe the end of the Cretinous period, will when Americans stop believing in endless growth on a finite planet A barrel of oil is equal today to 23,000 hours of human labor Unburned methane that escapes to air, traps heat 80xefficiently than Scientists believe the end of the Cretaceous period came with a rock larger than Mt Everest traveling twenty times faster than a bullet slammed into the Gulf of Mexico leading to a 1,000ft tall tsunami and a blizzard of meteorites Scientists believe the end of the Cretinous period, will when Americans stop believing in endless growth on a finite planet A barrel of oil is equal today to 23,000 hours of human labor Unburned methane that escapes to air, traps heat 80xefficiently than carbon dioxide 270,000 sharks are killed every day Without the oceans to cool the heat, the temperature on the planet since 1955 would have risen a whopping 97 degrees Fahrenheit Bill says of Obama that He was elected to run a political system based on endless growth Ten years before Hansen s report, Exxon knew it was destroying the planet Their public affairs manager released in ...Easy to read, full of witty moments, and full of SOME information, I enjoyed reading this book, especially the weird science stuff There re parts about billionaires wanting to freeze their bodies, other billionaires who can t wait for nanotechnology and gene tweaking, so they can live forever Also, infuriatingly there s the Princeton professor, Lee Silver, who runs GenePeeks, who unashamedly says all aspects of the economy, the media, the entertainment industry, and the knowledge industry wi Easy to read, full of witty moments, and full of SOME information, I enjoyed reading this book, especially the weird science stuff There re parts about billionaires wanting to freeze their bodies, other billionaires who can t wait for nanotechnology and gene tweaking, so they can live forever Also, infuriatingly there s the Princeton professor, Lee Silver, who runs GenePeeks, who unashamedly says all aspects of the economy, the media, the entertainment industry, and the knowledge industry will be controlled by members of the GenRich class Meanwhile, Naturals will work as low paid service providers or laborers p 153 He s referring t...What a weird book Starts of with what is happening which we know at least reasonably well and are expecting to read Followed by the selfish multi billionaire crowd who still worship Ayn Randnever a good idea Planning for immortality and genetically modified babieswhat Really Several totally increasinngly bad ideas along with toxic levels of entitlement Those new babies will be perfect Or not Or no longer human Or will be the overlords Well at that point okay please go for i What a weird book Starts of with what is happening which we know at least reasonably well and are expecting to read Followed by the selfish multi billionaire crowd who still worship Ayn Randnever a good idea Planning for immortality and genetically modified babieswhat Really Several totally increasinngly bad ideas along with toxic levels of entitlement Those new babies will be perfect Or not Or no longer human Or will be the overlords Well at that point okay please go for it and freeze your heads until they can be thawed and very indispensible you can go on with your immortality So much for ideas that might have some impact on existing problems Then solar panels Which are good things Except according to those who know muchthan I do about what is needed to keep the world functional solar energy isn t enough No doubt there are way too many of us and too little ability to deal with the problem of inequality So some few are okay and everyone else not Unless th...Surprisingly or not it turns out that Bill McKibben is muchthan a one note piano Pursuing his contention that the game of humanity is going to be played much differently and on a smaller board in the future, McKibben wonders about climate change, designer genetics, and AI He is certainly qualified to talk about the first subject, but as the latter two subjects continued, my attention wandered as my trust waned Perhaps naively, I had believed this to be environmentally focuse Surprisingly or not it turns out that Bill McKibben is muchthan a one note piano Pursuing his contention that the game of humanity is going to be played much differently and on a smaller board in the future, McKibben wonders about climate change, designer genetics, and AI He is certainly qualified to talk about the first subject, but as the latter two subjects continued, my attention wandered as my trust waned Perhaps naively, I had believed this to be environmentally focused, but as the number of topics increased, the metaphor of the game played itself out Now, I m not saying I m looking for single mindedness, but I suppose I would have qualified this book as one concerned with futurity and not simply climate change if I were to be honest In fairness, the cover suggests little either way I would raise a worry that the idea of the human game is pretty radically insufficient to theorizing life, but there we have it.Regarding the text itself the major subject , McKibben is very engaging and alive a...A little reminiscent of Yuval Noah Harari s excellent books about humanity s near future Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus A History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century perhaps a little less cerebral and a littleempathetic than Harari McKibben is one of our most astute voices on the climate crisis, and he has put his body on the line fighting for change action.This book focuses on four major forces that threaten the human prospect in the coming years decad A little reminiscent of Yuval Noah Harari s excellent books about humanity s near future Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus A History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century perhaps a little less cerebral and a littleempathetic than Harari McKibben is one of our most astute voices on the climate crisis, and he has put his body on the line fighting for change action.This book focuses on four major forces that threaten the human prospect in the coming year...McKibben s new book is far ranging and deeply philosophical Who would have expected him to get deeply into artificial intelligence and genetic engineering besides, of course, climate change , and then tie it all togethe...Everyone, please read this one.
- 26 June 2018 Bill McKibben
- Hardcover
- 291 pages
- 1250178266
- Bill McKibben
- Falter