{"id":1063,"date":"2013-02-05T21:56:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T21:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2013-02-07T03:44:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T03:44:38","slug":"eaarth-making-a-life-on-a-tough-new-planet-by-bill-mckibben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodbookstoday.com\/bookclub\/eaarth-making-a-life-on-a-tough-new-planet-by-bill-mckibben\/","title":{"rendered":"Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book of the Week: Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet<\/strong>
\nBill McKibben (Author)
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\"Eaarth:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bestselling author of Deep Economy shows that we\u2019re living on a fundamentally altered planet \u2014 and opens our eyes to the kind of change we\u2019ll need in order to make our civilization endure.<\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we\u2019ve waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We\u2019ve created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.<\/p>\n

That new planet is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to defend \u2014 think of the money that went to repair New Orleans, or the trillions of dollars it will take to transform our energy systems. But the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse depends on the stable planet we\u2019ve managed to damage and degrade. We can\u2019t rely on old habits any longer.<\/p>\n

Our hope depends, McKibben argues, on scaling back \u2014 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. Change \u2014 fundamental change \u2014 is our best hope on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance.<\/p>\n