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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (St. Martin's Griffin, 2011; first published 2010)

Bill McKibben · c. 2010–2011

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  1. We imagine we still live back on that old planet
  2. We're running Genesis backward, de-creating.
  3. The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has—even if we don't quite know it yet.
  4. global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality.
  5. We have traveled to a new planet, propelled on a burst of carbon dioxide.

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