Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

Twenty years ago, author Bill McKibben warned about global warming in The End of Nature. Despite these warnings, he now insists we acknowledge the delay and the unavoidable, ongoing massive change. Our familiar globe is melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning. We’ve created a new planet, Eaarth, fundamentally different from the old one.

This new planet has new challenges. Defending a changing world costs money, like repairing New Orleans or transforming energy systems. However, endless economic growth depends on the damaged planet. Old habits can’t sustain this.

McKibben’s hope lies in scaling back and building societies and economies that can hunker down, focus on essentials, and create communities that can weather unprecedented trouble. Change, fundamental change, is our best hope on an out-of-balance planet.

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