Eaarth

The title of Bill Mckibben's "Eaarth" is a powerful one. To me, putting the extra "a" in "eaarth" is a message saying that earth is not the same anymore. We as a human raced have changed it, mainly for the worse according to Bill. This book is a bash on the people who still think global warming isn't real. Bill gets a little sassy at times but it just goes to show how upset the author is at the world around us. Ignorance, is bliss until the world blows up. I would like to take a quote directly from the book saying, "My only real fear is that the reality described in this book, and increasingly evident in the world around us, will be for some an excuse to give up. We need just the opposite, increased engagement. Some of that engagement will be local: building the kind of communities and economies that can withstand what's coming. And some of it must be global: we must step up the fight to keep climate change from getting even more powerfully out of control, and to try to protect those people most at risk, who are almost always those who have done the least to cause the problem...It's true that we've lost that fight, insofar as our goal was to preserve the world we were born into. That's not the world we live on any longer, and there's no use pretending otherwise."

 It saddens me to believe this is true, but it would be blatant denial to say otherwise. Times they are a changin' and we have to start changing too. Ride a bike, take a bus, turn off your lights, buy energy star appliances, replace your light bulbs! It doesn't take 10,000 to make a difference. Start today.