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Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet

Argues that a large-scale shift in Earth's climate is unavoidable and explains how humans should live if they are going to sustain themselves on the new planet that their mistakes have created.

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  • "Twenty years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he argues, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already underway. Our old familiar planet is melting, drying, acidifying, flooding and burning in ways humans have never seen. We've created a new planet, still recognisable but fundamentally different. In Eaarth, McKibben surveys the changes already taking place and considers what they will mean for our future.Adapting to our ne."
  • "Argues that a large-scale shift in Earth's climate is unavoidable and explains how humans should live if they are going to sustain themselves on the new planet that their mistakes have created."
  • "Argues that a large-scale shift in Earth's climate is unavoidable and explains how humans should live if they are going to sustain themselves on the new planet that their mistakes have created."@en
  • ""Imagine we live on a planet. Not our cozy, taken-for-granted earth, but a planet, a real one, with dark poles and belching volcanoes and a heaving, corrosive sea, raked by winds, strafed by storms, scorched by heat. An inhospitable place. A different place. A different planet. It needs a new name. Eaarth."--Back cover."
  • "McKibben's earliest warnings about global warming went largely unheeded. In this book, he argues that we can meet the challenges of a new "Eaarth"--Still recognizable but suddenly and violently out of balance--by building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community that will allow us to weather trouble on an unprecedented scale."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Ji jiang dao lai de di qiu mo ri"
  • "Eaarth [sic] : making a life on a tough new planet"
  • "Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet"@en
  • "Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet"
  • "即将到来的地球末日 = Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet"
  • "即将到来的地球末日"
  • "Earth : making a life on a tough new planet"
  • "Ji jiang dao lai de di qiu mo ri = Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet"
  • "Eaarth making a life on a tough new planet"

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