# Contents (or put a title here) * the following line creates the automatic table of contents {: toc} ## Introduction ## Eaarth is a book by [[Bill McKibben]] about [[Climate change|climate change]]. The title refers to the Earth, which McKibben claims has been so substantially changed by human influence that a new name is in order: "let it be Eaarth." ### Content and Discussion ### #### Title #### As the title suggests, the author does not discuss _if_ [[Climate change|climate change]] is happening, he takes this for granted (see [[POV]]). #### Chapter 1: Climate Change is real #### The first chapter is devoted to list a lot of [[Anecdotal evidence|anectdotal evidence]] that temperatures have risen on earth, and that this _already_ had a lot of impact. #### Chapter 4: Envisioning our civilization's future #### Bill McKibben describes the kind of civilization that could be able to survive [[climate change]]: It's a civilization with much less mobility, more localized and concentrated on getting all necessary goods from the neighborhood. The internet, on the other hand, will help as a substitute to the kind of mobility and diversity that people grew accustomed to during the end of the 20th century. ## References ## * [Eaarth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eaarth), Wikipedia. category:books