{"product_id":"maybe-one-isbn-9780452280922","title":"Maybe One","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn light of climate change warnings, more families are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint and help prevent disasters like rising sea levels, wildfires, and increasing global temperatures. In this compelling book, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFalter \u003c\/i\u003eargues for a solution with sociological, population, and environmental benefits: having fewer children.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe earth is becoming dangerously overcrowded, and if more families chose to have only one child, it would make a crucial difference toward ensuring a healthy future for ourselves and our planet for generations to come. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But the environment alone may not persuade most people to consider having just one child, as 80% of Americans have siblings. Powerful stereotypes about only children—that they’re spoiled, selfish, or maladjusted in some way—still persist. McKibben, the proud father of an only child himself, debunks these myths, citing research about the many emotional and intellectual strengths only children possess, including higher test scores, higher levels of achievement in school, and greater development of positive personality traits like maturity and self-control.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once a powerful personal argument and an accessible exploration of what overpopulation could mean to human life and environmental sustainability, \u003ci\u003eMaybe One \u003c\/i\u003eis a provocative yet well-reasoned opening to what has become important and lasting debate.Introduction\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Famiy\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Species\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: Nation\u003cbr\u003ePart Four: Self\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e“What stands out in this eloquent book... is McKibben’s wonderfully illuminating and entertaining work in tracking down our national prejudice against only children and single-child families. There and throughout this call to arms, the reader feels the added dimension of a father's love.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A timely book.”—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An impassioned call for Americans to limit their offspring in the name of the planet.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A warmly personal exploration of what may be humankind's most compelling dilemma.”—\u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “One of those rare books that encourages the reader to think and gives us the tools with which to do so; it has a point of view without ever becoming doctrinaire. For all its sobering issues, it is a delight to read. McKibben is that better kind of optimist, one who sees a problem and finds liberation in sculpting an answer.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Compelling.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill McKibben\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than a dozen books, including \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeep Economy\u003c\/i\u003e. A former staff writer for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, he writes often for \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, a global warming awareness campaign that in October 2009 coordinated what CNN called \"the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history.\" He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.","brand":"Plume","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301399777509,"sku":"NP9780452280922","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780452280922.jpg?v=1767732451","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/maybe-one-isbn-9780452280922","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}