Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimately, McKibben is a sentimentalist, not a scientist, for which The End of Nature suffers. The book's last chapter dissolves into a series of ruminations about what McKibben terms an "anthropocentric" society that values human life above all other forms. In order to forestall the end of nature, he says, humanity needs to begin thinking about the earth as a whole...
McKibben wrote for The New Yorker for several years after leaving Harvard, and it shows. The End of Nature cultivates the quietly lyrical style that is the magazine's trademark. Nowhere is this background more evident than in the closing of the second chapter when McKibben explains why the "green-house effect" is an apt name for the global warming problem...
This thought is central to The End of Nature, and it represents a highly unusual effort to look at all the ramifications of the global warming problem. Although its flaws are obvious, The End of Nature is as fresh as the endless stream of "end" theories is stale...
...marketing representative for a New Jersey advertiser to college students openly mourned the end of Head of the Charles revelry, though he said the Head still had its strong points. "A lot of blonde girls," he said, "unseasonably blonde." And cleancut young men to match. The perfect J. Crew cover...
Resistance to this recognition lay within ourselves. It was hard to recognize that we were in a dead-end street or that what we were protecting was not socialism but dictatorial state socialism...