Eaarth
by Bill McKibben · first published 2010
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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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Bill McKibben’s “Eaarth” is a good one.
on “Satellite Images Show Vast Swaths of the Arctic on Fire” ↗…but there are a ton of mediocre books and bad books that are about as useless as any web page and as easily forgotten. I feel like sometimes people romanticize books far too much. I recently finished Eaarth by Bill McKibben and I felt like the whole book could have been nicely covered in a 10 paragraph blog post. It wasn't a bad book, not even very long, but I couldn't tell you much of anything about it…
on “Conceding Defeat - The Internet is Stronger Than I Am” ↗I think it was in Bill McKibben's book "Eaarth" that I was surprised to learn that back in the 1970's, after the "Limits of Growth" was published, polls showed that people were generally OK with moving towards an economic system that prioritized sustainability…
on “‘Remarkable’ global decline in the number of children women are having” ↗Figure I've got (from Bill McKibben's Eaarth IIRC) is that lorries average 59 ton-miles/gallon, whilst barges on canals net 514 ton-miles/gallon. (McKibben doesn't include rail, which is slightly less efficient though you can think of rail as effectively…
on “Contribution of childhood lead exposure to psychopathology in the US” ↗…though in various states of disrepair. Ophuls's political-ecological approach is being carried on by Thomas Homer-Dixon: <https://homerdixon.com/writing/> There are other authors: Bill McKibben's Eaarth (sic), Joel Magnusonn's The Approaching Great Transformation, the book Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, all of which I have to hand. Vaclav Smil has written his…
on “Tidal Energy Is Not Renewable” ↗