New at Reason: Ronald Bailey on Being a 21st-Century Peasant

June 25, 2010

From our July issue, Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey reviews environmentalist Bill McKibben’s new book Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. As Bailey notes, Eaarth follows the time-honored structure of environmentalist tracts, opening with a quick rehearsal of the science that allegedly seals our terrible fate, followed by a much longer disquisition outlining the author’s elaborate plan for salvation. Yet McKibben is so eager to make his case for doom, Bailey writes, that he can’t resist pushing the data farther than they go.

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