A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World

De: John Rember

Narrado por: Roger Wayne

Written with clarity, tenacity, humor, and warmth, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World attempts to find tolerable ethical positions in the face of barely tolerable events - and the real possibility of an intolerable future. It is a compelling, surprising, disturbing, and highly literate work of reportage and contemplation. It is both a collection of gentle-spirited wisdom and a rumination on ruin, as if distilled in equal measure from the spirits of Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It and Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

Through these 10 essays, each further broken into 10 smaller pieces, Rember examines the practical and ethical dilemmas of climate change, population, resource depletion, and mass extinction. At the same time, he never forgets those improbable connections between human beings that lead to moments of joy, empathy, and grace.

©2020 John V. Rember (P)2020 Tantor

Aging Flower Child Sees no Hope

This Harvard Grad (somehow Harvard people manage to tell us they went to Harvard even when it is irrelivant) is a competent wordsmith who spends his talents telling us how bad things are in the world, yet offers no real plan of change other than defeatist acceptance. He is still worried he will get sick from the Nuke tests of the 1950's. I am no expert but his distain for Utilitarianism is based on a non-issue, the Rule of the Majority. Rember seems a bright fellow who has dabbled in science & philosophy but ended up a dilettante. Weakest book of the year