Bill McKibben: Where Have All the Joiners Gone?

CHEAP FOSSIL FUEL has made us what we are. Which is to say: rich, powerful


Now imagine how different things have been for almost all of human history. Two hundred years ago, if an American wanted to eat a hamburger for dinner, he needed to be able to convince his neighbors to, say, help him build a barn in which to store hay to feed his cows all winter. And to help him harvest his wheat crop. Likely they would have come together to thresh it