An Idea Can Go Extinct

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In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental movement today. This is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth's entire atmosphere, the weather and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending nature.'

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Bill McKibben (b.1960) was one of the first writers to sound the alarm about climate change in the 1980s and ever since has been one of the world's most visible and effective environmental activists.