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Eaarth: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet (2010)

by Bill McKibben(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0805090568 (ISBN13: 9780805090567)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Times Books

review 1: The first half of this book is a real bummer. You're just getting hammered with statistics about how the Earth has changed and will never be the same. It took more effort than it should have to keep reading and to not put it down. But then, you get to the part of the book detailing McKibben's proposed solutions for life on this "new planet." I rather enjoyed this part of the book and definitely believe it was well-worth the read. Overall, I thought it was pretty interesting and gave me some ideas to incorporate into my daily life.
review 2: My grad class chose Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben as one of this semester's class readings and today we had a really lively on-line discussion about it. Several of us remarked on parallels we s... moreaw between the second half of McKibben's book and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. But the more memorable and disturbing parts of the book should, must, shake us out of any lingering complacency about what the reality of climate change will mean for us all in the very near future.This is not a comfortable read, but a necessary read. The evidence is in. We know the agonies we have inflicted and continue to inflict on the only world we have. It's too late to think in terms of saving it for our "grandchildren." McKibben doesn't try to make his research more palatable nor does he offer any solace to the climate change deniers.What he does do is offer a path forward that could allow us a more than liveable existence on this new eaarth we have already created. Reminiscent of the old TV ad advising that the car wasn't your father's Oldsmobile, he makes a solid case for getting used to the idea that the eaarth we have now isn't the same earth our grandparents and parents knew. We'd be foolish beyond words to continue to pretend it is. There is no deus ex machina that will save us. less

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