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  title info:
    title: Falter
    sub title: has the human game begun to play itself out?
  name:
    name part: McKibben, Bill
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 291 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: An opening note on hope -- The size of the board -- Leverage -- The name of the game -- An outside chance -- Epilogue : grounded.
  note: Bill McKibben.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Modern
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Nature
    topic: Effect of human beings on
  subject:
    topic: Technology and civilization
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
  subject:
    topic: Climatic changes
  classification: CB428 .M43 2019
  classification: 909.83
  identifier: 9781250178268
  identifier: 1250178266
  identifier: 2018046452
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181210
    record change date: 20190718165307.0
    record identifier: in00004063974