
Falter
Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
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Narrado por:
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Oliver Wyman
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Bill McKibben - foreword
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De:
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Bill McKibben
"[Oliver Wyman's] skillful, nuanced performance is enough to keep listeners from tossing their earbuds aside in despair.... This isn't easy listening, but it's essential for anyone concerned about humanity's future." (AudioFile Magazine)
2019 Washington Post Best Books of the Year
This program includes a foreword read by the author.
Thirty 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.
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature - issued 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.
Falter tells 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.
Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms to save not only our planet, but also our humanity.
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"Narrator Oliver Wyman has the difficult task of engaging listeners with this audiobook's grim tidings on climate change and pending social collapse.... Yet his skillful, nuanced performance is enough to keep listeners from tossing their earbuds aside in despair. Wyman spotlights sporadic moments of humor and hope and channels McKibben's withering rage toward the powerful few who suppress climate action in favor of personal wealth. This isn't easy listening, but it's essential for anyone concerned about humanity's future." (AudioFile Magazine)
Great book!
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Another great book by Bill McKibben
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listen to this book
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The individualists have some control over sentient AIs, human gene manipulation, and climate change, and can cause these to have us lose the game.
McKibben starts with climate change. He presents the terrors it is doing and will increasingly do. This is very similar to what David Wallace-Wells did in his first 12 chapters of Uninhabitable Earth. McKibben does it better. He is scarier, but more readable. mostly because he puts his own personality into everything he writes. His descriptions of the AI and human gene modification fears are very thorough and very persuasive.
McKibben ends on an upbeat note. He says we can and will join together as a community, but we may be too late.
Overall, the book is very entertaining and informative, and Oliver Wyman reads it beautifully. This is e book everyone should read or listen to.
Civilization Is a Game We Wii Probably Lose
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Where we are
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Doom and Gloom, but fun to listen to, and a call to action
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Some have faulted his information and knowledge on topics like wildfires, which he does spend considerable time on, along with ice. I can't address those concerns because I don't know enough. He certainly has done his homework on Rand. However despicable she is, he does not deny her humanity. Today's leaders on politics and business he is not too kind to, but they act with open eyes. Whatever faults this books may have, his perspective continues to be sterling,
Surprising!
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Like A Great Sermon
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Great book, irritating narration
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Solid if a tad disappointing
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