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    Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
    Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
    Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
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    Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

    Written by Bill McKibben

    Narrated by Bill McKibben and Oliver Wyman

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    "[Oliver Wyman's] skillful, nuanced performance is enough to keep listeners from tossing their earbuds aside in despair...This isn't easy listening, but it's essential for anyone concerned about humanity's future." — AudioFile Magazine

    This program includes a foreword read by the author.

    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 McKibben’s 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 McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global citizens movement to combat climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the trap. We’re at a bleak moment in human history -- and we’ll 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.

    Editor's Note

    In the news…

    Environmental thought leader Bill McKibben issues a passionate call to action to save not just our planet, but our humanity. McKibben lays out unsettling evidence of the dangers of climate change, as well as the threat of unregulated advances in technologies like AI and bioengineering that threaten the survival of humans.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateApr 16, 2019
    ISBN9781250317667
    Author

    Bill McKibben

    Bill McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including the best sellers Falter, Deep Economy, and The End of Nature, which was the first book to warn the general public about the climate crisis. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called “the alternate Nobel.” He lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern. He founded the global grassroots climate campaign 350.org; his new project, organizing people over sixty for progressive change, is called Third Act.

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