Volume 50, Number 10 · June 12, 2003
Arguing Against Ice Cream
By Margaret Atwood
Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
by Bill McKibben
Times Books, 271 pp., $25.00
Enough, by Bill McKibben, is a passionate, succinct, chilling, closely argued, sometimes hilarious, touchingly well-intentioned, and essential summary of the future proposed by 'science' for the human race. This is the same Bill McKibben who wrote The End of Nature, about how Homo sapiens has been rearranging the biosphere with the aid of genetically modified plants to suit what it believes is its own interests, and Long Distance, about running marathons, as well as essays for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review, The Atlantic, and others.
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