Brown Bag, Green Book #17: Eaarth
Charles Maynard, author and founding Executive Director of Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, led an engaging discussion of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben.
Twenty years ago, with his previous book The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we've waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it “Eaarth.”
About Charles Maynard
Charles Maynard is a storyteller, author, and an ordained United Methodist minister. He has authored or co-authored over 29 books, including 21 children’s books. He is currently director of development for Camp and Retreat Ministries for the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church. Charles worked as the first executive director of Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Maynard serves on the Southeast Region Advisory Board for the National Parks Conservation Association, the board of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, and the board of Discover Life in America. His most recent books are Going Along to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Blue Ridge Ancient and Majestic.
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