Authors:
Bill McKibben
Brief Bio: American environmentalist, author, and journalist
Lived: 1960-
For further info: en.wikipedia.org
Quotations
“Digging up fossil fuels and setting them alight”
For two hundred years, human economic activity has largely consisted of digging up fossil fuels and setting them alight, and while two hundred years seems like a long time to us, in geological terms it’s like a bat out of… well, out of hell. We’re currently injecting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere ten times faster than during the End-Permiasn, which was, just to repeat, the worst event in the earth’s history.
2019 from the book Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
“The Human Experiment is Now in Question”
Put simply, between ecological destruction and technological hubris, the human experiment is now in question. The stakes feel very high, and the odds very long, and the trends very ominous.
2019 from the book Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?