Volume 36, Number 20 · December 21, 1989
Paradise Lost
By Daniel J. Kevles
The End of Nature
by Bill McKibben
Random House, 226 pp., $19.95
Global Warming: Are We Entering the Greenhouse Century?
by Stephen H. Schneider
Sierra Club Books, 317 pp., $18.95
Bill McKibben lives in the Adirondack Mountains, of New York State, in an isolated house some twelve miles from the nearest town. He works as a writer and spends much of his leisure time hiking in the surrounding woods. He regularly attends a Methodist church because he likes the fellowship, loves to sing hymns, and finds meaning in the Old and New Testaments. But he finds the presence of God mostly in the outdoors. He says that, like many people in the modern era, he has been troubled by a crisis of religious belief and that he has 'overcome it to a greater or a lesser degree by locating God in nature,' declaring,
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