在1989年，McKibben當時二十八歲，他寫下了第一本並非出自科學家手筆，第一本向普羅大眾講述溫室效應與全球暖化危機的書籍：《The End of Nature》。
這本書受到不少讀者的歡迎，但在當時，更是受到大多數企業與媒體的反對批評甚至杯葛，發動拒讀。但受挫的McKibben依舊持續為了環保議題行動以及著書發聲。
到了今天，沒有人在覺得這個議題遙遠或者只是危言聳聽。這本McKibben的新書，集結了近二十年來McKibben最好的相關議題文章；從中讀者依舊可以得到很多資訊，與行動的啟發。
Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy
For a generation, Bill McKibben has been among America's most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking book on climate change, The End of Nature, is considered "as important as Rachel Carson's classic Silent Spring"* and Deep Economy, his "deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding"** exploration of globalization, helped awaken and fuel a movement to restore local economies.
Now, for the first time, the best of McKibben's essays-fiery, magical, and infused with his uniquely soulful investigations of modern life-are collected in a single volume. Whether meditating on today's golden age in radio, the natural place of biting black flies in our lives, or the patriotism of a grandmother fighting to get corporate money out of politics, McKibben inspires us to become better caretakers of the Earth-and of one another.
*The Plain Dealer (Cleveland )
**Michael Pollan
作者簡介
Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes regularly for Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.
