End Of Nature
The End of Nature Book Review
Introduction
1 a) When Bill McKibben originally wrote this book in the late 1980s, the two observations were that we tell time badly and that our sense of scale is awry.
1 b) Nothing at all has changed, but actually gotten worse. It has increased by 15%.
1 c) Three pieces of evidence that support global warming is that sea levels will rise, warmer seasons and a lot more hurricanes will come.
1 d) Everything we do involves fossil fuels and in order to change it we would have to change the way we move around, spaces we live in and jobs we perform and food we eat.
A New Atmosphere
2 a) We believe things will happen in the future, not in our lifetime. This is wrong because things are happening in our lifetime and we will be apart of making it better but are actually being apart of making thing worse.
2 b) When he says nature, he means the ideas about the world and our place in it. Things will still happen, the rain will still......
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