Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

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Bill McKibben

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This timely, sobering and inspiring call to arms on our planet's future is the most important book you'll read this year. A powerful call to arms from one of the world's most eminent environmentalists. Thirty years ago, environmentalist Bill McKibben's bestselling The End of Nature - now regarded as a classic - was the first book to alert us to global warming. Now, in Falter, he suggests that the human race may have played itself out. Climate change, robotics and artificial intelligence may spell the end of humanity as we know it. Unless we act now. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervour that keeps us from bringing them under control. Drawing on McKibben's experience in building 350.org, the first 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 must confront the reality or watch the civilisation our forebears built slip away. This is a timely, sobering and inspiring rallying cry to save not only our planet but also our humanity.

Author Biography:

Bill McKibben is a journalist and activist who founded the environmental organisation 350.org. 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.

Release date NZ

April 16th, 2019

Author

Bill McKibben

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

304

Dimensions

154x233x29

ISBN-13

9781760641597

Product ID

28941991

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