THE END OF NATURE

One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism s lodestars Nature we believe takes forever It moves with infinite slowness begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention Interweaving lyrical observations from his life in the Adirondack Mountains with insights from the emerging science Bill McKibben sets out the central developments not only of the environmental crisis now facing us but also the terms of our response from policy to the fundamental philosophical shift in our relationship with the natural world which he argues could save us A moving elegy to nature in its pristine pre human wildness The End of Nature is both a milestone in environmental thought indispensable to understanding how we arrived here