Book
Falter : has the human game begun to play itself out? / Bill McKibben.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250178268 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 291 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | An opening note on hope -- The size of the board -- Leverage -- The name of the game -- An outside chance -- Epilogue : grounded. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Civilization, Modern > 21st century. Nature > Effect of human beings on. Technology and civilization. Human ecology. Climatic changes. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | 909.83 McKi | 31681010148179 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Shares cautionary insights into how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and robotics, are being developed through fervent ideologies that are threatening the diversity of human experience. - Baker & Taylor
The prizewinning author of Eaarth and The End of Nature shares cautionary insights into how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and robotics, are being developed through fervent ideologies that are threatening the diversity of human experience. - McMillan Palgrave
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 McKibbenâs 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 McKibbenâs experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. Weâre at a bleak moment in human history -- and weâll 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.
