"Read it, please.
Change--fundamental change--is our best hope on a Planet suddenly and violently out of balance..
Our hope depends, Mc Kibben 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.
We can\'t rely on old habits any longer.
But the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse depends on the stable Planet we\'ve managed to damage and degrade.
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.
That new Planet is filled with new binds and traps.
We may as well call it Eaarth.
We\'ve created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different.
Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen.
Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we\'ve waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way.
Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." --Barbara Kingsolver Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill Mc Kibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming.
Straight through to the end. "Read it, please
