Word: ending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acknowledges that such a solution doesn't really solve the basic problem which The End of Nature poses. By voluntarily choosing to reshape our society, we would still relegate nature to a secondary role. The natural world would exist in an untainted state only because we had willed...
Anyone reading McKibben's first book, The End of Nature would have no doubts. McKibben is sentimental, especially in discussing the world of lakes and mountains that surrounds his Adirondack home...
That spirit runs throughout the The End of Nature in which McKibben argues that the process of global warming is killing off the very idea of nature by extending the reach of humanity throughout the planet...
McKibben, a former president of The Crimson, worked after graduation for The New Yorker, where he wrote the "Talk of the Town" column. At times, The End of Nature reads like an extended New Yorker column, as it dashes from current scientific theory to the literary rhapsodies of Henry D. Thoreau (Class of 1837) to his own experiences in upstate New York...
...ENDS are all the rage these days. Although scientists have been proclaiming for decades that the "end of physics" is in sight, the idea has never really caught in with the general public. Until...