McKibben, Bill

McKibben, Bill. 1990. The End of Nature. New York Anchor Books,... 

McKibben, Bill. Enough Staying Human in an Engineered Age. Times Books, New York, New York, 2003. 

McKibben s melancholy fin-de-siecle view of the world is, consciously or unconsciously, probably rather widely shared. But there is also an opposite view a new-century, can-do view, tempered by the insights and experiences of the world s Bill McKibbens, that says We can and will make the world a better place. This view has inspired and prodded thousands and thousands of activists, researchers, and others to work for a cleaner environment. It was expressed first and best by Jules Verne, in his 1874 novel The Mysterious Island ... 

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