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Bill McKibben

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Fatal Attraction: Our Endless Affair with Plastic

If anything, plastic’s space-age indestructibility was a selling point. But now, half a century, billions of users, and trillions of products later, plastic is starting to collect. Imagine, if you dare, every piece of plastic ever made still out there, somewhere, in our ever-contracting world.

Turn and Face the Strange Changes

The laws of physics dictate that where energy is consumed, equal energy must be generated to replace it. We have been living in defiance of basic natural law, taking more than our share and not giving enough back in return.