‘[Oliver Wyman’s] skillful, nuanced performance will do to keep listeners from tossing their earbuds aside in despair…This isn’t easy listening, but it’s needed for anyone worried about humanity’s future.’ – AudioFile Journal

This program carries a foreword read by the writer.

Thirty years back Costs McKibben offered one of the first warnings on the subject of climate change. Now he broadens the caution: the entire human game, he suggests, offers begun to try out itself out.

Bill McKibben’s approximately Falter: Has the Individual Game Begun to try out Itself Out? groundbreaking publication THE FINISH of Character — released in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic — was the 1st reserve to alert us to global warming. However the risk is certainly broader than that: even while climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new systems like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach aside the variety of human experience.

Falter tells the story of these converging styles and of the ideological fervor that helps to keep us from bringing them under control. And then, drawing on McKibben’s experience in building 350.org, the first truly global people movement to fight climate change, it offers some possible ways out of the capture. We’re at a bleak instant in human history — and we’ll either confront that bleakness or view the civilization our forebears built slip away.

Falter is a robust and sobering contact to arms, to save not only our world but also our humanity.