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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Hope, Human and Wild: True
Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth
by Bill McKibben
PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
Bill McKibben's first book, the bestselling The End of
Nature, offered a devastating portrait of the human civilization has done to
the planet. Hope, Human and Wild sets out on a dramatically different
journey to provide examples and hope for a sustainable future, one in which
our society's wealth is measured less by its material productivity and more
by its spiritual richness; less by its consumption of resources and more by
the extent to which we live in harmony with the natural world. From the
Adirondack Mountains to Kerala, India, to Curitiba, Brazil, McKibben offers
clear-eyed and profoundly compelling portraits of places where resourceful
people have confronted modern problems with inventive solutions, and thrived
in the process. With an afterword by the author updating developments in the
decade since the book was first published, this new edition offers a badly
needed vision of optimism for the future of our planet.
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