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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

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by Bill McKibben


  Breakout Labs

  Breashears, David

  Brevard County Historical Commission

  Brexit

  Breyer, Christian

  Brin, Sergey

  Britain

  British Columbia

  Broad Institute

  Brodie, Jon

  bubonic plague

  Buchanan, James McGill

  Buddha

  Bunyan, Paul

  Burgess, Seth

  Burns, Jennifer

  Bush, George H. W.

  Bush, George W.

  BusinessWeek

  Cairo

  Calcutta

  Calico

  California

  floods and

  wildfires and

  Cambrian explosion

  Cambridge Analytica

  campaign finance

  Canada

  cancer

  Cape Canaveral

  Cape Cod

  Cape of Good Hope

  Cape Town

  capitalism

  carbon cap-and-trade

  carbon dioxide emissions

  Bush, G.W., and

  cognitive ability and

  drought and

  extinctions and

  heat trapping and

  increase in

  natural gas vs. coal and

  nutrients in crops and

  oceans and

  oil industry research and

  permafrost and

  rainfall and

  reducing U.S. footprint and

  sea level and

  “Carbon Dioxide: They Call It Pollution” (TV ad)

  carbon taxes

  Cargill

  Carnegie, Andrew

  Carson, Rachel

  Carter, Clint

  Cas9 enzyme

  cattle ranching

  cedars of Lebanon

  Center for Genetics and Society

  Center for Libertarian Studies

  Center for the Study of Public Choice

  Centers for Disease Control

  cereals

  CertainTeed Corporation

  Charpentier, Emmanuelle

  Chattanooga, Tennessee

  Chaucer, Geoffrey

  chemotherapy

  Cheney, Dick

  Chevron Oil

  China

  chlorination

  chlorofluorocarbons

  choice

  Christianity

  Church, George

  Churchill, Canada

  Churchill, Winston

  CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile CompaniON)

  Citizens United

  civil disobedience

  civil rights movement

  Clean Air Act

  Clean Water Act

  Cleveland Clinic

  climate change. See also atmospheric temperature, rise in; oceans; and specific energy sources; and impacts

  advanced nature of

  antigovernment ideology and

  difficulty of solving

  global rally of 2009 and

  Hansen on

  heat trapping gases and

  human nature and

  impact of

  Koch brothers and

  leverage and

  nonviolence and

  oil industry and

  politics and

  scientific consensus on

  slowing down

  Thatcher on

  Trump and

  climate change deniers

  climate scientists

  Clinton, Bill

  cloning

  coal

  coastal communities

  Collapse (Diamond)

  colonialism

  Columbus, Christopher

  Comfort, Nathaniel

  Common Cause

  commons, theory of

  communism

  community. See also solidarity

  Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI)

  computers

  COMTY gene

  ConocoPhillips

  Consumer Reports

  continental flood basalt

  Cooler Heads Coalition

  cooperative ownership

  Copenhagen climate conference

  coral reefs

  Corinth

  corn

  Corporation Commission

  Côte d’Ivoire

  Council of Economic Advisers

  Cowen, Tyler

  Crack in Creation, A (Doudna)

  Craigslist

  Credit Suisse

  Cretaceous extinction

  Crick, Francis

  CRISPR

  cryogenics

  Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly

  cyanobacteria

  Cyberselfish (Borsook)

  cystic fibrosis

  Dakota Access Pipeline

  Dalio, Ray

  Dankert, Don

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark Money (Mayer)

  Darnovsky, Marcy

  Davison, Richard

  Day, Dorothy

  dead zones

  Death Valley

  Deaton, Angus

  Deccan Traps

  DeepMind

  Defense of the Ancients (video game)

  Delhi

  DeMille, Cecil B.

  democracy

  Democratic Party

  democratic socialism

  Denmark

  depression

  desertification

  designer babies

  Devon Energy

  Devonian extinction

  Diamond, Jared

  Dickens, Charles

  dinosaurs

  disease

  DNA. See also genetic engineering

  dopamine receptor D4

  Doudna, Jennifer

  Dougie mice

  Dr. No (submarine)

  Dropbox

  drought

  Duchenne muscular dystrophy

  Dune Vulnerability Team (DVT)

  Dust Bowl

  Duterte, Rodrigo

  Dyson, Freeman

  Eagle Glacier

  Earth

  crust of

  degradation of

  habitability of

  hydrology of

  finite nature of

  great disruptions in

  Earth Day

  earthquakes

  Easter Island

  Ebell, Myron

  Ebola

  Economics of Smoking, The (Tollison and Wagner)

  Economist

  ecosystem services

  Eden

  Edison, Thomas

  efficiency

  Egypt

  elections

  2010

  2012

  2016

  2018

  electricity, new access

  El Niño

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  employment

  Endangered Species Act

  End of Nature, The (McKibben)

  Ends of the World, The (Brannen)

  “Energy and Man” (API symposium)

  Energy Department

  energy efficiency

  energy poverty

  Enlightenment Now (Pinker)

  Enough (McKibben)

  environmentalism

  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  environmental regulation

  Environmental Research

  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

  Erdogan, Recep Tayyip

  erythropoietin (EPO)

  Esso Atlantic (oil tanker)

  estuaries

  ethics

  Ettinger, Robert

  Europe

  evolution

  experience sampling

  Extinction Rebellion

  Exxon

  Facebook

  facial recognition software

  Falcon 9 rocket

  famine

  Farmerline

  Fate of the Earth, The (Schell)

  Fauci, Anthony

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sp; Federalist Society

  Federal Reserve

  feedback loops

  fertilizer

  fiberglass net

  Finding Nemo (film)

  Finland

  fires

  First Amendment

  fish

  Fisher Body

  floods

  Florida

  flow

  Flynn effect

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

  food supply

  Forbes

  Ford, Gerald

  forests

  Forest Service

  Fort McMurray, Canada

  Fortune 500 CEOs

  fossil fuels. See also oil and gas industry; and specific types

  climate change research and

  divestment and

  federal subsidies and

  fossil record

  Fossouo, Max-Marc

  Fountainhead, The (Rand)

  Fox News

  fracking

  Francis, Pope

  Freedom Partners Investment

  Freud, Sigmund

  Friedan, Betty

  Friend, Tad

  Frontiers of Freedom

  Fukushima reactors

  “Future Does Not Need Us, The” (Joy)

  Future of Humanity Institute

  Gagarin, Yuri

  Gaia theory

  Gallagher, Nora

  Gandhi, Mohandas

  GDP, global

  gene drives

  gene editing

  GenePeeks

  General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

  gene therapy or repair

  genetically modified (GMO) food

  genetic engineering

  choice and

  danger of

  germline, heritable

  regulation and

  somatic

  space travel and

  genetic testing

  GenRich class

  Germany

  Ghana

  Gilgamesh

  glaciers

  Global Climate Coalition (GCC)

  Global Seed Vault

  Gmail

  Go

  goldenrod

  Goldman Sachs

  Goodall, Jane

  Goodell, Jeff

  Google

  Google Earth

  Gore, Al

  government

  antigovernment ideology and

  public choice theory and

  regulation and

  Grain Belt

  Great Barrier Reef

  Great Barrier Reef Legacy

  Great Society

  Greece

  Green Bay Packers

  greenhouse effect. See climate change

  greenhouse gases, defined. See also carbon dioxide emissions; methane

  Greenland

  Green Mountain National Forest

  Green Mountain Power (GMP)

  Green New Deal

  Green Revolution

  Greenspan, Alan

  grouper

  Guardian

  Gulf of Mexico

  Gulf of Oman

  Gulf Oil

  Gupta Empire

  Halliburton

  Hamer, Dean

  Han Empire

  Hansen, James

  Harari, Yuval

  Hari, Johann

  Harland, Greg

  Harvard Business Review

  Hawaii

  Hawking, Stephen

  Hawn, Goldie

  Hayek, Friedrich

  Hayflick limit

  Haynes, Robert

  health care

  Healthy Longevity Grand Challenge

  Heartland Institute

  heat index

  heat waves. See also atmospheric temperature

  Heisenberg, Werner

  He Jiankui

  Helgesen, Xavier

  heliophore

  Helios 2 probe

  Hendrix, Amanda

  Hickman, William

  Himalayas

  Hinduism

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hobbes, Thomas

  Hobbie J (smart mouse)

  Holocene epoch

  homelessness

  hookworm

  horseshoe crabs

  Hot Air Tour

  Housing and Urban Development, Department of (HUD)

  Houston

  Howarth, Robert

  Hsu, Stephen

  Hubbard, Alun

  Hudson Bay

  Hudson Motors

  human cognitive ability

  human nature

  Humanzee

  humidity

  hurricanes

  Florence

  Harvey

  Ireland and Scotland and

  Katrina

  Maria

  Sandy

  hydroelectric dams

  IBM

  Ice Age

  Iceland

  ice sheets. See also glaciers; sea ice

  iGen

  immune systems

  Inconvenient Truth, An (film)

  Inconvenient Truth … or Convenient Fiction, An (film)

  India

  individualism

  Indonesia

  inequality

  inertia

  infant mortality

  Ingraffea, Tony

  insects

  InsideClimateNews (website)

  Institute for Justice

  Intel

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

  Interior, Department of the

  International Congress of Genetics, Sixteenth

  International Organization for Migration

  International Space Station

  internet

  Inuit

  Iowa

  IQ scores

  Iran

  Iraq

  Ireland

  irrigation

  Italy

  IVF treatment

  Jackson, Jesse

  Jacobs, Jane

  Jacobson, Mark

  Jaeger, John

  Jakarta

  Japan

  Java Sea

  jellyfish

  Jenner, Kylie

  Jeopardy! (TV show)

  Jetnil-Kijiner, Kathy

  Jobs, Steve

  John Birch Society

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Journal of Mathematical Biology

  Journal of Physical Therapy Science

  Joy, Bill

  Joyce, James

  Kac, Eduardo

  Kaepernick, Colin

  Kalanick, Travis

  Kansas

  Kasparov, Gary

  Kavanaugh, Brett

  Kempf, Hervé

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kennedy Space Center

  Kepler (satellite)

  Kerry, James

  Kerry, John

  Keynes, John Maynard

  Keystone XL Pipeline

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  King of Kings (film)

  king tides

  Klein, Naomi

  Knoepfler, Paul

  Koch, Charles

  Koch, Charles G., Foundation

  Koch, David

  Koch, Elizabeth

  Koch, Fred

  Koch, Frederick, Jr.

  Koch, Mary

  Koch, William “Bill”

  Kodas, Michael

  Kona

  Korea

  Krueger, Alan

  Kumkum Bhagya (soap opera)

  Kurzweil, Fredric

  Kurzweil, Ray

  Kyoto Protocol

  labor law

  labor unions

  Lahore, Pakistan

  laissez-faire

  Lanier, Jaron

  Las Vegas

  lead poisoning

  Leap Manifesto

  Lear, Norman

  Leary, Timothy

  Lee, Kai-fu

  LeFevre, Robert

  leukemia

  leverage

  Lewi
s, Seko Serge

  Lexington, Battle of

  libertarianism

  Libertarian Party

  life expectancy

  lightning strikes

  limestone

  limits

  Limits to Growth, The (Meadows)

  Lindbergh, Charles

  lobster fisheries

  Locklear, Samuel

  Lomé, Togo

  London

  Los Angeles

  Los Angeles Times

  Louisiana

  Lovelock, James

  Lowndes County, Alabama

  Luntz, Frank

  Lyme disease

  Machine Intelligence Research Institute

  MacLean, Nancy

  Maduro

  malaria

  Mallory, George

  Maltese Falcon (yacht)

  Mann, Michael

  Manson, Charles

  manufacturing

  MAOA gene variant

  marine species

  Maris, Bill

  markets

  marlin

  Mars

  Marsh, George Perkins

  Marshall Islands

  mass extinctions

  Matchright

  maturity

  Mauryan Empire

  Mayans

  Mayer, Jane

  McArthur Forest Fire Danger Index

  McCain, John

  Medicaid

  Medicare

  Megafire (Kodas)

  Mehlman, Maxwell

  Mekong Delta

  meltwater pulse 1A

  Mercer, Robert

  Merkle, Ralph

  Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge

  methane

  Mexico

  Miami Beach

  Microsoft

  migration

  Mill, John Stuart

  Miller, Dean

  Milner, Yuri

  Milosevic, Slobodan

  Minsky, Marvin

  Mises, Ludwig von

  Mississippi Delta

  MIT Technology Review

  Mongolia

  Monsanto

  Montgomery Bus Boycott

  Mont Pelerin movement

  Montreal

  Montreal Protocol

  More, Max

  mortality

  Moses, Robert

  Mount Kenya

  MSTN gene

  Muir, John

  Mumbai

  Murdoch, Rupert

  Musk, Elon

  Nabokov, Vladimir

  nanobot blood cells

  National Academy of Medicine

  National Academy of Sciences

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

  National Cancer Institute

  National Coal Association

  National Energy Policy Act (proposed)

  National Geographic

  National Governors Association

  National Journal

  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

  national parks and monuments

  Native Americans

  natural gas

  Nature

  Nawabshah, Pakistan

  Nazi Germany

  Nectome

  neoliberalism

  Neolithic period

  Nepal

  Netherlands

  New Deal

  NewsCorp

  New York

  New Yorker

  New York Times

  Magazine

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  Niviana, Aka

  Nixon, Richard

  Nokia

  nonviolence

  North America

  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

  North Carolina

  North Korea

  Norway

  Novartis

  nuclear power

 

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