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

Author:   Bill McKibben ,  Bill McKibben ,  Oliver Wyman
Publisher:   MacMillan Audio
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9781250317674


Publication Date:   16 April 2019
Format:   Audio  Audio Format
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?


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[Oliver Wyman's] skillful, nuanced performance is enough to keep listeners from tossing their earbuds aside in despair...This isn't easy listening, but it's essential for anyone concerned about humanity's future. -- AudioFile Magazine This program includes a foreword read by the author. 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 away. Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.

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Author:   Bill McKibben ,  Bill McKibben ,  Oliver Wyman
Publisher:   MacMillan Audio
Imprint:   MacMillan Audio
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 14.70cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9781250317674


ISBN 10:   1250317673
Publication Date:   16 April 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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[E]ssential for anyone concerned about humanity's future. -AudioFile Magazine


[E]ssential for anyone concerned about humanity's future. -AudioFile Magazine


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Bill McKibben is a founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the first to have warned of the dangers of global warming. He is the author of 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.

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