The Resource Falter : has the human game begun to play itself out?, Bill McKibben
Falter : has the human game begun to play itself out?, Bill McKibben
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 291 pages
- Contents
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- An opening note on hope
- The size of the board
- Leverage
- The name of the game
- An outside chance
- Epilogue : grounded
- Isbn
- 9781250178268
- Label
- Falter : has the human game begun to play itself out?
- Title
- Falter
- Title remainder
- has the human game begun to play itself out?
- Statement of responsibility
- Bill McKibben
- Subject
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- trueTechnology and civilization
- trueArtificial intelligence -- Social aspects
- Civilization, Modern -- 21st century
- trueCivilization, Western
- Civilization, Western -- 21st century
- trueClimate change -- Social aspects
- Climatic changes
- trueGene editing
- trueGlobal warming -- Social aspects
- trueHuman ecology
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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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- 10765941
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- McKibben, Bill
- Dewey number
- 909.83
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- CB428
- LC item number
- .M43 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- True
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- Civilization, Modern
- Nature
- Technology and civilization
- Human ecology
- Climatic changes
- Target audience
- adult
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- has the human game begun to play itself out?
- Label
- Falter : has the human game begun to play itself out?, Bill McKibben
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-277) and index
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- Contents
- An opening note on hope -- The size of the board -- Leverage -- The name of the game -- An outside chance -- Epilogue : grounded
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 291 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250178268
- Lccn
- 2018046452
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other control number
- 40029092532
- System control number
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- on1033647691
- (OCoLC)1033647691
- Label
- Falter : has the human game begun to play itself out?, Bill McKibben
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-277) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- text
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- Contents
- An opening note on hope -- The size of the board -- Leverage -- The name of the game -- An outside chance -- Epilogue : grounded
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 291 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250178268
- Lccn
- 2018046452
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40029092532
- System control number
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- on1033647691
- (OCoLC)1033647691
Subject
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- trueNature -- Effect of humans on
- trueTechnology and civilization
- trueArtificial intelligence -- Social aspects
- Civilization, Modern -- 21st century
- trueCivilization, Western
- Civilization, Western -- 21st century
- trueClimate change -- Social aspects
- Climatic changes
- trueGene editing
- trueGlobal warming -- Social aspects
- trueHuman ecology
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