Enough
Subtitle: staying human in an engineered age
By: Bill McKibben.
Edition: 1st Owl Books ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780805075199
Subjects: Human genetics -- Social aspects; Genetic engineering -- Social aspects
Description: Nearly fifteen years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill McKibben demonstrated that humanity had begun to irrevocably alter and endanger our environment on a global scale. Now he turns his eye to an array of technologies that could change our relationship not with the rest of nature but with ourselves. He explores the frontiers of genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology, all of which we are approaching with astonishing speed and shows that each threatens to take us past a point of no return. We now stand, in Michael Pollan's words, "on a moral and existential threshold," poised between the human past and a post-human future. McKibben offers a celebration of what it means to be human, and a warning that we risk the loss of all meaning if we step across the threshold. Instantly acclaimed for its passion and insight, this wise and eloquent book argues that we cannot forever grow in reach and power, that we must at last learn how to say, "Enough."
Notes: "An Owl book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Too much; title: Even more; title: Enough?; title: Is enough possible?; title: Enough; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.