About this title: This is an examination of man's new relationship with nature ranging from consequences of the greenhouse effect, global heating, changing weather patterns, rising sea levels and evaporating rivers to changes in the world's economic and political power structure. The author sees this new phase in our planet's history as profoundly sad as the ...
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Description: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Random House Pub Date: 9/23/1989 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 226. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780394576015ISBN:0394576012
Description: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket; Mild cover wear, moderate wear, rubbing and soil to DJ with chips/tears around corners, edges and spine ends, light soil to end pages, binding tight, text clean. 0394576012; 12394. Features; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 226 pages; Notes. read more
Description: NY: Random House, 1989. 226 pages. 1st edition. Hardback. Index. Near Fine-with two corners turned down. Near Fine-rubbed dustjacket. ISBN: 0394576012. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780394576015ISBN:0394576012
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 226 p. Audience: General/trade. CLEAN, TIGHT HARDCOVER IN FINE DUSTJACKET read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1989-09-23
ISBN-13:9780394576015ISBN:0394576012
Description: Good. Ex-library with usual marks/removed pocket otherwise in very good, read little condition. Dustjacket protected w/mylar. Pgs crisp, clean, tight. read more
Edition: 2nd Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780394576015ISBN:0394576012
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. ILLUSTRATED DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR. INTERIOR PAGES CLEAN, BRIGHT AND TIGHT WITH LIBRARY STAMPS MARKED OUT. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780394576015ISBN:0394576012
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Pages are unmarked except for prev. owners names on inside cover. Bottom front pages and cover has water stain. D/J shows rubbing and some edge wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 226 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1989-01-01
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
ISBN-13:9780394576015ISBN:0394576012
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. 226 p. Our plante's upcoming environmental disaster. Society must realize that nature is what keeps our species alive and protected. New York Times best seller list. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Trade
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780394576015ISBN:0394576012
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Great 1st Edition! 226 p.; 1.05" x 9.62" x 6.49". "Angry, eloquent, manifoldly knowledgeable...let it cause a hell of a stir, " Edward Hoagland read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, NY
Date Published: 1989
Description: Book is Fine, except has a small remainder dot. Dust jacket is Very Good, except has 1 tear, light rubbing, price not clipped. 8vo. 226 pages. read more
"This is something of a dated book now, but still interesting for it's historic perspective on the subject. For more recent McKibben fans (thtat's me and I'm interested in global warming issues but probably don't agree with McKibben on certain issues) it shows his development as a writer. I believe that at this earlier time (20 years ago) he saw the subject as just one of many interesting things to write about, but of course more recently he's familiar as one of the organizers of 350.org."
"Written in the late 80's, this is a disturbing book to read as we approach the second decade of the 21st century. Disturbing because so little of our dialogue about climate change has progressed beyond what was being discussed two decades ago. Doubly so because McKibbin's nightmare, that we might delay action for 20 or more years, is precisely the course we have chosen, and the consequences are sure to be all-the-more dire because of it.
Much of this book is dated now... The science, for certain (An Inconvenient Truth is a far better source for more recent research). But on the whole, the book and McKibbin's perspective remains relevant as we, every day, make the choice between action & inaction regarding our impact on what remains of the natural world. This book is a reminder of what we are losing and, sadly, what we have already lost.
"Bill McKibben's THE END OF NATURE is lauded as "maybe taking its place to Rachel Carson and SILENT SPRING". He certainly is sounding the alarm in the 1980s, when the environmental movement had lost some of its momentum and when talk about the Green House Effect was brushed aside by politicians. This is a compelling book about the threats posed to nature by our life-styles and our goal to conquer nature and transform it to suit our needs. His call for a different view on nature is moving and all the more necessary today. Although the tide seems to be shifting, coming around to resemble what he proposed more than two decades ago, it is still hard to imagine that the world over would actually heed that call today, despite the economic downturn. There was, after all, an economic downturn in the 1970s and the environmentally-minded were still out-maneuvered by those favoring industry.
This book makes information on climate change very accessible to lay readers (i.e. non-scientists). It is not as sensitively written as Rachel Carson's book, but it is an important and valuable book. His concern for the ozone layer and for nature as we've known it was warranted then and now.
I'm a bit confused by the title. He explains his choice for a title in the new edition's Preface and in different places in the book, but it seems a bit confusing to me still that he would on the one hand suggest that nature is unpredictable in its timelessness and wildness, but say that in "mastering" it we've made it more unpredictable and more wild. I understand his argument that the limits that nature has always had are being broken down and in that sense we truly are experiencing its end, but the other conflicting ideas muddied the title for me. The other thing that was not critically handled is the attitude that nature should be preserved for the sake of its beauty. That is an older-style argument about nature for nature's sake that lends itself to elitist arguments supporting preservation and conservation efforts. Having said this, it's still necessary to appreciate nature from the perspective of one tiny animal who features as a part of an immense world. The very end of the book takes an elitist tone that can make readers uneasy. However, McKibben is right to continue reminding audiences that it's important to remember that we are just one animal out of an unknown many. He is right to put this in perspective in such a lovely way, by recalling the classic writings of John Muir, Burroughs, Thoreau, and others. If we accept a new way of looking at nature, a way that does not feature us at the center of things, we might indeed change our attitude towards the rest of the world, towards the natural world. One can dream."
"An extremely wordy book, with great thoughts, but it takes Bill way too long to get his point acrossed. Also a bit too scientific for the average reader. (I enjoyed all the facts and figures, but others I shared the book with did not.)"
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