| EAARTH Making Life on a Tough New Planet Bill McKibben New York: Times Books, April 2010 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-8050-9056-7 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-8050-9056-8 | 253pp. | HC | $24.00 | |
| Page 20: | "...the world in 2100 would have more than 725 parts per million carbon dioxide, or slightly double what scientists now believe is the maximum safe level of 350." | |
| Missing words: S/B "slightly more than double". |
| Page 69: | "As the number of thunderheads in the atmosphere steadily increases, so do the number of hailstorms." | |
| Number: S/B "so does the number". |
| Page 106: | "He [Oppenheimer] quoted from the Bhagavad Gita: 'We are become as Gods, destroyers of worlds.'." | |
| Misquote: S/B "Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds." |
| Page 151: | Quoting Kip Cullers: " 'They've started calling me the Bon Jovi of farming,' he says a little bashfully." | |
| Why? Is Bon Jovi an empire builder among rockers? |
| Page 152: | McKibben describes Wired magazine as "that journal usually devoted to hard drives and virtual reality." | |
| This mischaracterizes Wired; its purview has always been much wider that computers. |
| Page 166: | "Small gardens—allotments, the British call them—sprung up everywhere." | |
| Verb tense: S/B "sprang up". |
| Page 167: | Quoting Vandana Shiva: "In the terraced fields of the high Himalayas, women peasants grown jhangora..." | |
| Typo: S/B "grow". |
| Page 176: | "...by some estimates, as much as half of global warming gases can be tied to the livestock industry..." | |
| As much as half? I'd like to see a citation. |
| Page 183: | "How is it possible to imagine them on a globe that's running out of oil and running out of atmosphere?" | |
| Missing words: S/B "running out of a conducive atmosphere" or words to that effect. |
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