The End of Nature
$26.38
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
5 July 2022
Summary
‘Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,’ begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention. Interweaving lyrical observations from his life in the Adirondack Mountains with insights from the emerging science, Bill McKibben sets out the central developments not only of the environmental crisis now facing us but also the terms of our response, from policy to the fundamental, philosophical shift in our relationship with the natural world which, he arg…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241514429 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241514428 |
| Author: | Bill McKibben |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 5 July 2022 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Part science and part poetry, a sensitive and provocative essay of alarm, a kind of song for the wild, a lament for its loss, and a plea for its restoration
Part science and part poetry, a sensitive and provocative essay of alarm, a kind of song for the wild, a lament for its loss, and a plea for its restoration – Daniel J. Kevles * New York Review of Books *
Permeated with the immediacy of the Adirondack Mountains, the trees he can see from his window, the changing seasons, the wild creatures he encounters. An extraordinary book – Jonathon Porritt * Sunday Telegraph *
The fundamental book about the planetary change we are undergoing – Gaia Vince
McKibben explores the philosophies and technologies that have brought us here, and he shows how final a crossing we have made – James Gleick
About The Author
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is a writer and environmental activist. His The End of Nature (1989) is considered the first book for a general audience about climate change. He serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has won the Gandhi Peace Prize. He has campaigned on every continent, including Antarctica, for climate action. In recognition of his activism, a new species of woodland gnat - Megophthalmidia mckibbeni - was in 2014 named in his honour.
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