Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? Audiobook (Free)

‘[Oliver Wyman’s] skilled, nuanced performance is enough to maintain listeners from tossing their earbuds apart in despair…This isn’t easy listening, but it’s needed for anyone concerned about humanity’s future.’ – AudioFile Journal

This program includes a foreword read by the writer.

Thirty years back Expenses McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings on the subject of climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human video game, he suggests, provides begun to try out itself out.

Bill McKibben’s on the subject of Falter: Gets the Human Game Begun to try out Itself Out? groundbreaking book THE FINISH of Nature — released in dozens of languages and long seen as a classic — was the 1st book to alert us to global warming. However the risk is usually broader than that: even as climate alter shrinks the area where our civilization can can be found, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away all of the human experience.

Falter tells the story of these converging tendencies and of the ideological fervor that helps to keep us from bringing them in order. And then, sketching on McKibben’s knowledge in building 350.org, the initial truly global residents movement to fight climate change, it offers some possible ways from the trap. We’re at a bleak moment in human history — and we’ll either confront that bleakness or view the civilization our forebears built slip away.

Falter is a powerful and sobering call to arms, to save lots of not only our planet but also our mankind.