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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? Hardcover

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Steven Cleghorn
5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book and take action
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2021
Unfortunately, there are so much science and so many organizations that understand global warming's dangers and challenges, and still, the world refuses to change. If you are not interested in or educated about climate change, this is a good place to start with broad perspectives and detailed solutions.
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Diane D.
5.0 out of 5 stars A well-presented overview of potential game enders for humans.
Reviewed in the United States on 1 July 2024
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Well-written, well-researched, and reasonably neutral, with lots of really cool information. I have read this book several times, if only to remind myself to keep a sense of humor. For as we head down our human road, as we "evolve," the journey of humankind is becoming equal parts fascinating, amazing, and more than a little disturbing. Still, the author tries to imbue hope. After all, are we not innovators too?! Let's hope so.
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R H Fenner
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read
Reviewed in Germany on 5 October 2021
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Bill McKibben's 'Falter' gives an outlook on the problems of the future that our children, and probably we ourselves, are going to wrestle with: global warming, AI, global inequality.
Bill McKibben is an excellent writer with a very wide and deep knowledge of his subject. His vision of the future is frightening but utterly perspicaceous and, unfortunately, highly credible. Having read Naomi Klein, Yuval Harari and David Wallace-Wells, I found McKibben's 'Falter' totally unputdownable. I wish it were compulsory reading among our anti-Green and neoliberal politicians.
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sean s.
5.0 out of 5 stars An important book sounding the alarm
Reviewed in Canada on 5 June 2019
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Bill McKibben is a founder of the leading environmental organization 350.org. He writes:

‘To walk the roads through even a corner of Alberta’s vast tar sands complex is to visit a kind of hell. This may be the largest industrial complex on our planet – the largest dam on Earth holds back one of the many vast settling ponds, where sludge from the mines combines with water and toxic chemicals in a black soup. Because any bird that landed on the filthy water would die, cannons fire day and night to scare them away. If you listen to the crack of the guns, and to the stories of the area’s original inhabitants, whose forest was ripped up for the mines, you understand that you are in a war zone. The army is mustered by the billionaires Charles and David Koch (the biggest lease holders in the tar sands) and ConocoPhillips and PetroChina and the rest. It is hideous, a vandalism of the natural and human world that can scarcely be imagined…

In 1978, one of Exxon’s senior scientists, James F. Black, spoke to a large pool of the company’s executives. Independent researchers, he said, estimated that a doubling of the carbon dioxide concentration would increase average global temperatures by from 2 to 3 degrees Celsius, to as much as 10 degrees Celsius. Rainfall might get heavier in some regions, and other places might turn to desert.

That is to say, ten years before James Hansen’s Senate testimony made climate change a public issue, Exxon, the world’s largest oil company and, indeed, in those days, the world’s largest company period, understood that its product was going to wreck the planet. It just wasn’t telling the rest of us. As late as 2017, pollsters found that almost 90 percent of Americans didn’t know there was a scientific consensus on global warming…

The Koch brothers, Charles and David, are arguably the most powerful men in the Western world. They’re not as blustering as Donald Trump, and they’re uninterested in his flashiest hatreds and crusades, but they’re both the most important architects, and among the biggest beneficiaries, of his rule. On everything from tax cuts to environmental regulation, the Trump years have been what their biographer Jane Mayer calls ‘their dream come true.’

The Koch brothers have become such a shorthand for plutocratic excess that it’s important to remind ourselves that they are real men with real stories, also rooted in the twentieth century (and told most ably by Mayer in her book ‘Dark Money’)…

The Kochs set up a web of political groups such as Americans for Prosperity. They and their allies also erected think tanks and academic centers around the nation that churned out policy papers to back up their plans and to produce messaging to convince people to vote against their own interests…

Billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, America’s first partisan television network, emerged to amplify the stream of messages. Much of the work was done at the state and local level, where local billionaires – junior Kochs, as it were – concentrated on winning statehouses, gerrymandering districts, and enacting the voter suppression laws that reduced the size of the ‘mob’ they’d need to vanquish…

Arriving in Washington with no existing ideology except feeding his narcissism and enriching his family, Trump proved the perfect president finally to enact the full government-hating agenda. The billionaire Robert Mercer, who’d funded not only Trump’s campaign but also Cambridge Analytica, the source of so much Facebook skullduggery, was a key figure…’

Despite the incessant lobbying for destructive fossil fuels, there are some signs of hope:

‘The sun shines everywhere, and when it doesn’t, the wind is usually blowing. The latest studies, from labs such as Mark Jacobson’s at Stanford, make clear that every major nation on earth could be supplying 80 percent of its power from renewables by 2030, at prices far cheaper than paying the damage for climate change (cf. Jacobson and Delucci, ‘Green New Deal: Sorry, there’s no place here for nuclear energy, or biofuels or carbon capture’, Red, Green and Blue, January 2019)…

In the fall of 2018, a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl named Greta Thunberg staged a ‘school strike,’ sitting on the steps of Parliament instead of going to class on the theory that she couldn’t be bothered if the government couldn’t be bothered to care about the climate. Her action galvanized sentiment across northern Europe… (cf. ‘European Elections: Triumphant Greens Demand More Radical Climate Action’, The Guardian, May 2019).

In the United States, young people staged a sit-in at Congress to demand a special committee on a ‘Green New Deal’ (proposed by congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez). By early 2019, pollsters reported that 80% of Democrats and 60% of Republicans backed the idea, or at least the slogan…’

A poll by Abacus Data reveals that 61 percent of Canadians also support a Green New Deal for Canada (cf. ‘Majority of Canadians Support a Green New Deal, Poll Finds’, Toronto Star, April 2019).

Andrew Scheer has shown that he is firmly on the side of the fossil fuels industry (cf. ‘Scheer Leaves Himself Open to Claims He’s in Cahoots with Big Oil’, Globe & Mail, April 2019).

Therefore, it is up to the Trudeau Liberals and Canada’s other parties to accelerate the transition to renewable energy, with the modest carbon tax being only the first step.

Stanford’s Mark Jacobson and others have shown us the way forward, and every day of delay will only result in greater environmental destruction and climate chaos.

Along with David Wallace-Wells’ Uninhabitable Earth, Falter is one of the important recent books sounding the alarm about the urgency of the situation. We should all take heed, and take action.
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dAVID
5.0 out of 5 stars This Earth is the only planet, anywhere, to have life as we know it.
Reviewed in Australia on 7 June 2019
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A compassionate and reverential view of the brilliance of human ingenuity and intelligence which is failing to slow down and repair the only place known to have ever manifest life. Now is the time to make the choice towards irreversible suicide, or not. We cannot think about it anymore but must understand which choice we have made. Will we watch the death of our children and claim innocence?
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Robert Campbell
5.0 out of 5 stars This book goes a long way to explain the current dilemma our planet is facing at this time.
Reviewed in Canada on 14 December 2021
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The way the author has formatted this book allows you to read each chapter as a standalone. Depending on what topic you’re looking for, climate change, income inequality he approaches each one as a separate topic.
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