Bill McKibben discusses his book “Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?” Thirty years after McKibben released his groundbreaking book “The End of Nature”, he returns to evaluate the danger today.
Even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human experience. Falter tells the story of these converging trends and of the ideological fervor that keeps us from bringing them under control. He warns us we’re at a bleak moment in human history — and we must confront that bleakness or watch civilization falter.