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  <title><![CDATA[The End of Nature]]></title>
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  <default-description>Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift in the way we relate to nature is more relevant than ever. McKibben writes of our earth's environmental cataclysm, addressing such core issues as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer. His new introduction addresses some of the latest environmental issues that have risen during the 1990s. The book also includes an invaluable new appendix of facts and figures that surveys the progress of the environmental movement.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;More than simply a handbook for survival or a doomsday catalog of scientific prediction, this classic, soulful lament on Nature is required reading for nature enthusiasts, activists, and concerned citizens alike.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-day type="integer">13</original-publication-day>
  <original-publication-month type="integer">6</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">1997</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The End of Nature</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Bill McKibben]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dragged myself through this puppy. It was a tough go, but I somehow felt it was the environmentally responsible thing to do. Basically he makes the point very forcefully that we really have paved paradise. Damn. I recommend putting away all sharp objects and hiding anything that can be used to hang ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7495500">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The great problem with this book was the way it approaches nature--namely that he wants to leave humans out of it.  He seems more angry that we exist as a part of the world than interested in thinking of productive ways of dealing with the the concerns regarding the environment that we are facing.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This long essay asks two questions: What would our lives be like if nature were not bigger than us?  And what would it be like to imagine ourselves smaller?<br/><br/>	The first question -- which takes up the first half of the book -- is fascinating.  McKibben argues that a core part of what Nature...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66889623">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave this book a quick re-read after initially reading it for academic purposes years ago and being put off by the doomsday approach of McKibben. Even though I agree with McKibben in general, I don't like this book. It offers nothing but commentary. It leaves the human species out of the equation....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13128012">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been thinking about this book for the week since I finished it. Initially it pissed me off. It's the kind of book that an environmentalist finds depressingly fatalistic. I was frustrated, angry, demoralized, downtrodden. This book is about the past and present state of the environment. It was w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57792798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1025014">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The thesis is clear and probably true: Human beings are now causing so many changes in the world that we cannot think of &quot;nature&quot; as an independent force that acts on us.  In other words, &quot;nature&quot; is now (partially) man-made.  Parts of the book were moving, but there's better stu...]]></body>
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    <review id="73535953">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was okay... McKibben's main thesis is that humans have done such a grand job dominating nature that it is no longer natural. Thanks to climate change, our weather is no longer due to nature, it's due to human activity, which is why the book is titled The End of Nature.<br/><br/>I think t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73535953">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57755357">
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written in the late 80's, this is a disturbing book to read as we approach the second decade of the 21st century. Disturbing because so little of our dialogue about climate change has progressed beyond what was being discussed two decades ago. Doubly so because McKibbin's nightmare, that we might de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57755357">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49931174">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bill McKibben's THE END OF NATURE is lauded as &quot;maybe taking its place to Rachel Carson and SILENT SPRING&quot;.  He certainly is sounding the alarm in the 1980s, when the environmental movement had lost some of its momentum and when talk about the Green House Effect was brushed aside by politi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49931174">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26611050">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps as an environmental studies student who has studied the 30 years of theory that followed and partly responded to The End of Nature, I was unable to see the book without bias.  That said, I have never been so frustrated with a book before.  Bill McKibben is an excellent writer, and a very goo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26611050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39777808">
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this book has a very good point and was a good read it does make you very depressed about the whole situation and doesn't provide the customary light at the end of the tunnel (so to speak).  I agree with the issues raised and the culpubility of man-kind but it doesn't provide the get up and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39777808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even though this book was written 20 years ago in 1989 it is still very relevant and even more insightful today.  The author laments the loss of the entire natural world.  With the consensus recognition (yes, it was consensus even back in 1989 despite what Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, &amp; Faux News fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38270315">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing that this book was published so long ago - Everything that was true then is even MORE true now and causing even bigger problems (global warming, for one). Although I loved the book and thought it had a great deal of stunning details, I felt it could be a bit more organized. It was a flurry o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7317080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An extremely wordy book, with great thoughts, but it takes Bill way too long to get his point acrossed. Also a bit too scientific for the average reader. (I enjoyed all the facts and figures, but others I shared the book with did not.)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is something of a dated book now, but still interesting for it's historic perspective on the subject. For more recent McKibben fans (thtat's me and I'm interested in global warming issues but probably don't agree with McKibben on certain issues) it shows his development as a writer. I believe t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71869335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1183433">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book presents the sobering idea that there is no longer such as thing as nature, because humans have caused such massive changes by their presence and behaviors; that humans have altered everything (including all forms of plant and animal life) on earth. I read the book when it was first publis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1183433">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I kept this book at the side of my bed for awhile, starting it a few times, setting it down when my head started to hurt, and thenceforth casting guilty looks at it before I went to bed each night, almost like a projection of my guilty environmental conscience. <br/><br/>But perhaps my reluctance ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9055792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Written in 1989, and the science of global warming was already largely settled.  McKibben admits that we have no idea what global warming's effects will be, but laments the loss of a world without man's influence.  Global warming is such a global phenomenon, he fears that soon there will be nowhere ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24577545">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bill McKibben is more than a science writer: he is a poet.  His descriptions of forests ravaged by acid rain are more deeply moving now than when this book was written ten years ago.  He issued a clarion call that was taken up by many people, but still we are struggling with the issues presented in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25371048">more...</a>]]></body>
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