Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, (Paperback)

from AliceaP

Eaarth is at once hopeful and devastating. Bill McKibben doesn't pull any punches about the effects of global warming on our planet. The consequences of our pursuit for fossil fuel (and its burning) have made a lasting impact which is already effecting day-to-day living. The 'natural' disasters t...

from AliceaP

Eaarth is at once hopeful and devastating. Bill McKibben doesn't pull any punches about the effects of global warming on our planet. The consequences of our pursuit for fossil fuel (and its burning) have made a lasting impact which is already effecting day-to-day living. The 'natural' disasters t...

from C.J.Shane

About midway through reading this book, I had this weird feeling that I was reading a science fiction/ horror book. It reminded me of post-apocalyptic fiction in which an old text from right before the apocalypse is found and read by those living in the future. In the old text, the author is disc...

from SqueakyChu

What Bill McKibben tells us in Eaarth is that the planet on which we now live is no longer the planet that it formerly was due to how man has changed it. He uses the word Eaarth purposely as a metaphor to give a visual indication that our planet's change is permanent. Additionally, he says that w...

from eduscapes

A long anticipated update to Bill McKibben's The End of Nature book, Eaarth stresses that we've waited too long to address the causes of climate change. He uses the word "Eaarth" to reflect the new planet in which we now live. Long on gloom and short on solutions, the book stresses mistakes of th...