McKibben, Bioregional quiz in class righting

            Bill McKibben writes in the book called Eaarth: Making A Life on a Tough New Planet about the rapid and uncontrolled growth that has been happening to the Earth. McKibben explains how the planet is changing due to human expansion at an unprecedented rate. McKibben misspelled the name of the planet in the title as a way of demonstrating that the Earth has changed significantly, even since McKibben was born.

McKibben argues that continued unsustainable growth will eventually ruin the planet. The better course of action should be to no longer focus on consider growth as synonymous with progress. Instead, reducing expansion and sustaining civilization in a practical and environmentally friendly way should be the new goal of humanity. People need to also bring production of resources, food, energy, etc., to local levels, rather than continuing the larger scale production and distribution that happens today. For this scale of production to happen, people need to learn more about their own areas, so that these people may sustain civilization on more localized levels.