Bill McKibben ist eine führende Stimme in der Umweltliteratur, der sich seit Beginn seiner Karriere den dringenden Fragen des Klimawandels widmet. Seine Schriften untersuchen prägnant die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Natur und warnen eindringlich vor der globalen Erwärmung. Mit seinem fesselnden Stil und tiefen Verständnis für ökologische Anliegen hat sich McKibben als wichtiger Kommentator unserer Zeit etabliert. Seine Werke fordern die Leser auf, über unsere Auswirkungen auf den Planeten nachzudenken und sich aktiv den ökologischen Herausforderungen zu stellen.
„Die Klima-Helden von morgen“ ist ein inspirierendes Kinderbuch ab 4 Jahren, das die Bedeutung von Gemeinschaft im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel vermittelt. Bill McKibben und Stevie Lewis zeigen, wie Zusammenarbeit zur Bewältigung von Herausforderungen führt und Kinder dazu anregt, sich für den Umweltschutz zu engagieren.
Im Jahr 1989 warnte Bill McKibben mit seinem Buch »Das Ende der Natur« als einer der ersten vor dem Klimawandel. Sein neuer Aufruf ist umso dringender und weitreichender – die Menschheit ist dabei, nicht weniger als ihr Fortbestehen aufs Spiel zu setzen. Der Klimawandel ist heute, so McKibben, ein Hebel, der unsere Welt von Grund auf verändert. Die konzentrierte wirtschaftliche Macht in den Händen einiger weniger Spieler ist ein weiterer. Genauso die radikalen Konsequenzen der modernen Genetik sowie das Streben der Tech-Mogule nach künstlicher Intelligenz, das nach dem Sinn menschlichen Daseins gar nicht mehr fragt. In »Die taumelnde Welt« tritt Bill McKibben einen großen Schritt zurück, um dieses gesamte »Spiel der Menschheit« zu betrachten: Welchen Lauf nimmt es, wer macht die Regeln, und wie wollen wir es in Zukunft spielen?
Five years after the initial publication of Worldchanging, the landscape of environmentalism and sustainability has changed dramatically. The average reader is now well-versed--even inundated--with green lifestyle advice. In 2011, green is the starting point, not the destination. This second edition of the bestselling book is extensively revised to include the latest trends, technologies, and solutions in sustainable living. More than 160 new entries include up-to-the-minute information on the locavore movement, carbon-neutral homes, novel transportation solutions, the growing trend of ecotourism, the concept of food justice, and much more. Additional new sections focus on the role of cities as the catalyst for change in our society. With 50 percent new content, this overhauled edition incorporates the most recent studies and projects being implemented worldwide. The result is a guided tour through the most exciting new tools, models, and ideas for building a better future
The Emmy Award–winning creator of GASLAND tells his intimate and damning, personal story of our world in crisis. With a foreword by Bill McKibben. The rules have changed. The water has changed. The climate has changed. The truth has changed. We must change. In The Truth Has Changed, Josh Fox turns the rapid-fire shocks that are remaking the very fabric of our lives—writing as a first responder, a reporter, a documentarian, and an activist—into art, literature, and at least one answer to the question of what the future holds. Our normal isn’t normal anymore. The paradigm shift that global warming represents parallels a paradigm shift in how we process truth. Both deeply affect democracy. Josh Fox has had a front row seat—a first responder after 9/11, filming the Deepwater Horizon spill close up from the air and on the ground, a member of Bernie Sanders’s delegation of the Democratic Platform Committee, risking his life to cross a bridge on Thanksgiving Day at Standing Rock, traveling the nation and the world, shooting his films, talking to people everywhere he goes. The Truth Has Changed is his first book, the companion to his new one-man show of the same title, and it’s beautiful.
The most urgent call-to-arms yet for us to solve climate change, from one of the world's most influential and respected environmental advocates
Argues that a large-scale shift in Earth's climate is unavoidable and explains how humans should live if they are going to sustain themselves on the new planet that their mistakes have created
One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2022 So Far Bill McKibben—award-winning author, activist, educator—is fiercely curious. “I’m curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.” Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing—knowing—that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang “Kumbaya” at church. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth. But fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril. And he is curious: What the hell happened? In this revelatory cri de coeur, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. He finds that he is not without hope. And he wonders if any of that trinity of his youth—The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon—could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future.
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.
