Eaarth

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. Free Read Kindle ePUB Eaarth Author Bill McKibben – kino-fada.fr I cannot remember exactly when I heard about global warming for the first time I m sure it was not in school since I was already a college graduate at that time I was not a voracious reader then and all I was dreaming about was how to land a good job and convince my father to let me get married as I could already support my own family.That was approximately in the mid eighties Few years after the AIDS spread around the world It was also the time when my handsome brother was egging us, his 3 I cannot remember exactly when I heard about global warming for the first time I m sure it was not in school since I was already a college graduate at that time I was not a voracious reader then and all I was dreaming about was how to land a good job and convince my father to let me get married as I could already support my own family.That was approximately in the mid eighties Few years after the AIDS spread around the world It was also the time when my handsome brother was egging us, his 3 siblings, to pray the Holy Rosary every day Now and even then, he has a strong influence on me, so I got into the habit Then the 7.9 Cabanatuan earthquake hit the Philippines in 1990 The year after M...So, you probably think you don t want to read this book or this review, because it is about bad news you maybe think you already know, and will include not enough good or really new news about imminent solutions But I ll tell you It s well written and important, from the world s premier climate change writer.I recently reread Bill McKibben s 1986 The End of Nature, the first book about global warming for a general audience, in preparation to read thisrecent book, Eaarth Making a Life So, you probably think you don t want to read this book or this review, because it is about bad news you maybe think you already know, and will include not enough good or really new news about imminent solutions But I ll tell you It s well written and important, from the world s premier climate change writer.I recentl...McKibben argues that the place we now live has been changed by humans sufficiently in totally bad ways so that we no longer live on the same planet on which human society has developed over the last several thousand years Hence we no longer live on Earth, but Eaarth I think he is probably right, and this is a profoundly disturbing fact to contemplate He has pretty much given up attempting to solve the problem of global warming we can t anythough of course he is still devoting McKibben argues that the place we now live has been changed by humans sufficiently in totally bad ways so that we no longer live on the same planet on which human society has developed over the last several thousand years Hence we no longer live on Earth, but Eaarth I think he is probably right, and this is a profoundly disturbing fact to contemplate He has pretty much given up attempting to solve the problem of global warming we can t anythough of course he is still devoting much of his time advocat...It was tough to rate this as two stars I have deep admiration and respect for Bill McKibben s environmental work I also appreciate that this book says point blank what I think a lot of environmentalists are afraid to say that we have passed the tipping point, widespread damage is inevitable, and now we should focus on controlling the damage However, McKibben then falls into the trap that I ve seen spread across the environmental movement since An Inco...Last week the Senate showed its lack of backbone by refusing to take up climate legislation The proposed bill was extremely modest, but it apparently involved too much political risk for Democrats facing re election, and of course the Party of No held to its predictable position One does have to wonder why it s so easy for our leaders to turn their backs on finding ways to mitigate a likely global catastrophe I think the answer is that, although there are a few visible signs of a coming cli Last week the Senate showed its lack of backbone by refusing to take up climate legislation The proposed bill was extremely modest, but it apparently involved too much political risk for Democrats facing re election, and of course the Party of No held to its predictable position One does have to wonder why it s so easy for our leaders to turn their backs on finding ways to mitigate a likely global catastrophe I think the answer is that, although there are a few visible signs of a coming climate meltdown, much of the evidence is out of sight And out of sight seems to mean out of mind Rising global temperatures cause disappearing glaciers, acidification of the ocean, melting permafrost, droughts, and increasingly violent weather conditions But we we don t encounter much of this on a daily basis, and we seem wired to respond primarily to what is in our immediate environment.Bill McKibben s latest boo...I ve read in the past one or two of Bill McKibben s articles in maybe Mother Jones, but this is the first of his books I ve read I think it s also the first book I ve read about environmental issues Eaarth is indeed a great introduction about what we have done to the planet, particularly here in U.S If we listen to loud mouths like Sarah drill baby drill Palin, Glenn Beck, and other non scientific minded and intellectually deprived individuals, we re not going to understand the full scope w I ve read in the past one or two of Bill McKibben s articles in maybe Mother Jones, but this is the first of his books I ve read I think it s also the first book I ve read about environmental issues Eaarth is indeed a great introduction about what we have done to the planet, particularly here in U.S If we listen to loud mouths like Sarah drill baby drill Palin, Glenn Beck, and other non scientific minded and intellectually deprived individuals, we re not going to understand the full scope what is taking place on this planet right now.McKibben explains well how the earth we once knew is no longer It is now eaarth, and we better learn how to deal with...Bill McKibben really gets it He gets so much of it, that part of me just wants to pass over the parts that he doesn t get But he seems to consistently come up short on details, just as he did with Deep Economy, which also had so much right but bungled the ending so this is a well written, important, but flawed book.The really important thing, and what McKibben gets right, is that the basic problem that we have is with economic growth Dealing with climate change, not to mention peak oil, so Bill McKibben really gets it He gets so much of it, that part of me just wants to pass over the parts that he doesn t get But he seems to consi...I read The End of Nature for a college class 14 years ago, so it s a little fuzzy in my mind From what I remember, it was pretty unsettling It introduced me to a new way of thinking about the natural world, to the concept that humans have, indeed, touched or altered every square inch of the planet s surface.Eaarth, rather than being merely unsettling, is straight up frightening The compelling premise is that we have pumped too much carbon into the atmosphere at this point to halt climate ch I read The End of Nature for a college class 14 years ago, so it s a little fuzzy in my mind From what I remember, it was pretty unsettling It introduced me to a new way of thinking about the natural world, to the concept that humans have, indeed, touched or altered every square inch of the planet s surface.Eaarth, rather than being merely unsettling, is straight up frightening The compelling premise is that we have pumped too much carbon into the atmosphere at this point to halt climate change Even if we stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, the climate has already changed The changing of the climate is global, so we ve refurbished the entire planet And not in a good way.The first half of Eaarth is pretty withering as McKibben lays the smackdown with st...About midway through reading this book, I had this weird feeling that I was reading a science fiction horror book It reminded me of post apocalyptic fiction in which an old text from right before the apocalypse is found and read by those living in the future In the old text, the author is discussing a monster looming on the horizon which is almost completely ignored by everyone until the monster is upon them That pretty much...350ppm is the level of carb n dioxide that most of the climatologist think is the tipping point to save the planet of a catastrophe and also is the name of the organization founded by Bill Mckibben but this point is already surpassed and now we are arround 400ppm and the earth thoug we dont emit agram of carb n dioxide would be yet storing heat and warming because the sistem is yet out of equilibrium by the enormous heat capacity by the oceans,when the eqilibrium be reached the planet posi 350ppm is the level of carb n dioxide that most of the climatologist think is the tipping point to save the planet of a catastrophe and also is the name of the organization founded by Bill Mckibben but this point is already surpassed and now we ...

• English
• 22 April 2018
Bill McKibben
• Hardcover
• 253 pages
• 0805090568
• Bill McKibben
• Eaarth