by Alex Steffen
April 27, 2007

Scientists are telling us that we need to rapidly and substantially reduce our ecological footprint — think one planet, three decades. We’re optimistic that such a transformation is possible, Because we focus on solutions here, we rarely think about, much less report on, what might happen if we fail to miss that mark.

True insight into our day, into what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called “the fierce urgency of now,” demands knowing the stakes for which we’re playing. It requires knowing what awaits us if we fail. In this regard, Worldending has it’s place, especially when it helps us grasp a possible future which cuts against the grain of our expectations.

That’s why paleontologist Peter Ward’s Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future is a worldchanging book: not because it points the way to a solution, but because it provides a new and insightful resource for thinking about the true magnitude of our climate crisis. This is an important piece of green futurism.

Read the full review at WorldChanging