Falter : has the human game begun to play itself out?
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Published
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 25 cm
Status
Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction
909.83
1 available
909.83
1 available
Los Osos Library - Adult Nonfiction
909.83
1 available
909.83
1 available
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Published
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-277) and index.
Description
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.
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