Like many of us, Green looks at the changes we face with a mix of dread, bewilderment and the need to find hope. Green is a long time book reviewer and author of the best-seller The Fault In Our Stars. In his new book, The Anthropocene Reviewed, John Green uses humor, wisdom and a keen sense of connections to offer us something like an answer. How to live in the midst its uncertainty without falling into despair is the open question. Change (like global warming and pandemics) is the hallmark of this new era. Now we live in the Great Acceleration, also known as the Anthropocene, where even the Earth gets updates to its apps. And other than big events like a volcano, the physical world didn't change much either. If you lived a thousand years ago, the tools you used were probably the same ones as your great grandparents. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, John Greenįor most of human existence, things didn't change much within a single lifetime.
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