![]() ![]() ![]() I hope that the book gets across that it may not be too late to keep it from getting absolutely out of control. It’s too late, obviously, to stop climate change. Now, having wasted 30 years, we’re at the point where it’s a dominant fact of everyday life for hundreds of millions of people and promising to be the overwhelming fact of our time in the years ahead. You couldn’t really take a picture of climate change yet. How you would characterize Falter? Is it also a warning, or are we beyond that?īill McKibben: Look, 30 years ago this was all still prospective. One way to read that book is as a warning. Yale Environment 360: It’s almost exactly 30 years since you published The End of Nature. “The question is… what kind of world will it be?” “Thirty or 50 years out, the world’s going to run on sun and wind, because they’re free,” McKibben says.
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