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FALTER—Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

By Bill McKibben

“ Oh, it could get VERY bad ! “

*Author McKibben says the human game is won by staying alive and human.

*Problems and possibilities include climate change, leverage ( or greed) ,  artificial intelligence, genetic manipulation, and immortality.  Enter solar energy and common sense:  Thus hope. 

McKibben, himself a leading expert on climate change, enlists support and comment from Yuval Harari , Jared Diamond. Stephen Gould,  Steven  Pinker, Malcolm Gladwell,  and others of our best thinkers.  

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