{"product_id":"9781250178268","title":"Falter : Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFalter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Bill McKibben\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThirty 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBill McKibben’s groundbreaking book \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature -- \u003c\/i\u003eissued 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFalter \u003c\/i\u003etells 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFalter\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save not only our planet but also our humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“He has gathered the most \u003cb\u003evivid statistics\u003c\/b\u003e, distilled history to its\u003cb\u003e juiciest turns\u003c\/b\u003e, and made the case as \u003cb\u003eurgently and clearly \u003c\/b\u003eas can be: The whole breadth of our existence—the ‘human game’—is in jeopardy.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[An] unsettling look at the prospects for human survival. . . . Readers open to inconvenient and sobering truths will find \u003cb\u003emuch to digest in McKibben’s eloquently unsparing treatise.\u003c\/b\u003e” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A compelling call for change.”\u003c\/b\u003e —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[A] deeply caring, eloquently reasoned\u003c\/b\u003e inquiry into environmental and techno-utopian threats. . . . \u003cb\u003eProfoundly compelling and enlightening\u003c\/b\u003e, McKibben balances alarm with hope.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“McKibben provides \u003cb\u003ea fresh perspective\u003c\/b\u003e with surprising examples and an engaging writing style.” —\u003cb\u003eJared Diamond\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[A] lyrical masterpiece\u003c\/b\u003e . . . [and] \u003cb\u003ea humane and wise book,\u003c\/b\u003e even a beautiful one, if that’s not oxymoronic, given its subject . . . \u003ci\u003eFalter\u003c\/i\u003e provides ample evidence that we are on the cusp of an avoidable disaster.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Fascinating. . . McKibben is a mighty orator\u003c\/b\u003e on the page here, just as he was in \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and \u003ci\u003eEaarth \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), and his call for creating more compassionate and equitable societies is inspiring.” —\u003ci\u003ePacific Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFalter \u003c\/i\u003eis McKibben’s most powerfully argued book, and maybe his most important\u003c\/b\u003e since \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e 30 years ago. . . . It affirms him as among a very few of our most compelling truth-tellers about the climate catastrophe and the ideological forces driving it.” —Wen Stephenson, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFalter\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of one of America's \u003cb\u003emost skillful long-form journalists\u003c\/b\u003e. . . . [McKibben has] an uncannily \u003cb\u003eentertaining\u003c\/b\u003e way of combining information with interpretation and insight.” —\u003ci\u003eSeven Days\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A deeply reported, broad-spanning investigation. . . . Compelling.” —\u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“McKibben, a veteran environmental writer, is never hectoring or hyperbolic; here, he turns the possibility of human extinction (from climate change, artificial intelligence, etc.) into \u003cb\u003ean absorbing analysis with a glimmer of hope.” \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eEditor’s Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFalter\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about which it would be impossible to say too much. . . . \u003cb\u003eMcKibben has positioned himself on the cutting edge of history.”\u003c\/b\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe Progressive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The strength of [McKibben's] writing on climate change is that its \u003cb\u003especificity \u003c\/b\u003eburns away the mist from what, to most people, is a hazy issue.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFalter\u003c\/i\u003e is a bracing call to arms\u003c\/b\u003e, one that concerned readers ignore at their peril.” —\u003ci\u003ePalo Alto Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A love letter, a plea, a eulogy, and a prayer. \u003cb\u003eThis is Bill McKibben at his glorious best.\u003c\/b\u003e Wise and warning, with everything on the line. \u003cb\u003eDo not miss it.\u003c\/b\u003e”—\u003cb\u003eNaomi Klein\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThis Changes Everything\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Shock Doctrine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“McKibben himself is \u003cb\u003ea hopeful soul\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Rather than pushing us toward despair, McKibben situates his book as \u003cb\u003ea call to action\u003c\/b\u003e. Hope is a useful tool only if you know the shape of reality that you face.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I braced myself to plunge into this book about the largest and grimmest of situations our species has faced, and then \u003cb\u003eI found myself racing through it\u003c\/b\u003e, excited by the grand synthesis of innumerable scientific reports on the details of the crisis. And then at the end I saw the book as a description of a big trap with a small exit we could take, if we take heed of what Bill McKibben tells us here, and act on it.”—\u003cb\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s not an exaggeration to say that Bill McKibben has written a book so important,\u003cb\u003e reading it might save your life\u003c\/b\u003e, not to mention your home: Planet Earth. \u003ci\u003eFalter\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003cb\u003ebrilliant, impassioned call to arms\u003c\/b\u003e to save our climate from those profiting from its destruction before it’s too late. Over and over, McKibben has proven one of the most \u003cb\u003efarsighted and gifted voices of our times\u003c\/b\u003e, and with \u003ci\u003eFalter\u003c\/i\u003e he has topped himself, producing a book that honestly, everyone should read.”—\u003cb\u003eJane Mayer\u003c\/b\u003e, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDark Money\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“No one has done more than Bill McKibben to raise awareness about the great issues of our time. \u003ci\u003eFalter\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ean essential book\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003ehonest, far-reaching and, against the odds, hopeful.\u003c\/b\u003e”—\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Kolbert\u003c\/b\u003e, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“McKibben describes just how much trouble we’re in, yet \u003cb\u003ehis voice is so calm, his examples so fresh and unexpected\u003c\/b\u003e . . . that you easily glide into his\u003cb\u003e lucid, engaging contemplation\u003c\/b\u003e of the potential end of human civilization. Later in \u003ci\u003eFalter,\u003c\/i\u003e when he describes just as equably what we must do to prevent it, \u003cb\u003eyou believe it’s still worth trying.\u003c\/b\u003e” \u003cb\u003e—Alan Weisman\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“McKibben . . . has a charming writing style—inclusive, funny, intelligent and lucid. And he is a delightful companion on the journey—so delightful in fact that the terrifying nuggets are slipped in like a stiletto knife, in and out before you even notice. . . . [\u003ci\u003eFalter \u003c\/i\u003eis] one of the most articulate and compelling descriptions of our changing climate that I have yet read.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabrielle Walker\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed Washington Post Best Books of the Year (2019)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250178268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Henry Holt and Co.","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40683342004430,"sku":"9781250178268","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_3d9d0639-e217-4220-a335-9bf2244d79aa.jpg?v=1640148604","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250178268","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}