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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik |
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FALTER
Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change with his groundbreaking book The End of Nature. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
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. FALTER is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.
Bill McKibben is the founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the first to have warned of the dangers of global warming. Foreign Policy named him one of the 100 most important global thinkers. He is the author of fifteen books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Eaarth, and Deep Economy. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize. He lives in Vermont.
Praise for Bill McKibben:
"No one has done more than Bill McKibben to raise awareness about the great issues of our time. Falter is an essential book -- honest, far-reaching and, against the odds, hopeful.
--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction
Named one of the 100 most important global thinkers by Foreign Policy
McKibben is a man of many virtues. . . . Almost no one has been writing about climate change longer or working to fight it harder than he has. -- The New York Review of Books
The planet's best green journalist. -- Time
Probably the country's most important environmentalist. -- The Boston Globe
Bill McKibben is the founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the first to have warned of the dangers of global warming. Foreign Policy named him one of the 100 most important global thinkers. He is the author of fifteen books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Eaarth, and Deep Economy. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize. He lives in Vermont.
Praise for Bill McKibben:
"No one has done more than Bill McKibben to raise awareness about the great issues of our time. Falter is an essential book -- honest, far-reaching and, against the odds, hopeful.
--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction
Named one of the 100 most important global thinkers by Foreign Policy
McKibben is a man of many virtues. . . . Almost no one has been writing about climate change longer or working to fight it harder than he has. -- The New York Review of Books
The planet's best green journalist. -- Time
Probably the country's most important environmentalist. -- The Boston Globe
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Published 2019-04-01 by Henry Holt |