Bill McKibben is the leading environmentalist of this day ad has written several books on he subject. Eaarth is a book that has hope that humanity will finally solve some of these pressing global arming issues. He explains how barrels of oil have replaced human muscle for many of the things we did hundreds of years ago. McKibben lets the readers realize many of the catastrophic storms in recent years are most likely due to the heating of the atmosphere through all the carbon are machines have output. His chapter a new world basically shows how humans have helped shape the new constant storm weather patterns with are narcissistic abuses of the planet to make things easier for a small group of white people. Th new habitat we ha created will be disastrous for humans and the planets other creatures.
The author clearly lays blame on rich nations and suggested if the Chinese owned cars at the same rate as Americans the number of vehicles producing toxin carbon would shoot up to two billion from eight hundred million. McKibben hopes the increase price of fuel will make governments and society make the switch to energy sources that are not harmful. The number of small isolated towns will have to go without services and people who insist on these living arrangements will have to make without the things they are accustomed. Bill goes on to talk about the impossible task of repairing and maintaining the road infrastructure as reason enough to abandon the automobile. I agree.
What it is is that people in the West have come to expect and feel entitled to a certain living arrangement and in order to meet these demands they have had their government conclude that world domination is a key to maintaining this lifestyle. The rich and powerful refuse to change the habits that made them sickening rich and they will use their last remaining power to discredit environmentalists like Bill McKibben and others trying to wake the stupidity up from their eearthly coma.
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