The End of Nature
Bill McKibben • 1989
Devastation Rating
environmental destruction climate ecology nature
Our Take
McKibben's 1989 argument — that human alteration of the atmosphere means there is no longer any nature independent of human activity — was the first book to bring global warming to a general audience and it remains the clearest statement of what we lost before most people knew it was there. The elegiac tone is not despair. It is appropriate grief for something that did not deserve to be destroyed.
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