Geography asks three questions:
Bill McKibben has borrowed this song as the title of his latest (that is, 20th) book, whose subtitle is A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization.
From page 50:
"As it turns out, weaning the planet off fossil fuels would mean far less mining and a sharp reduction in useless economic activity. Forty percent of the world's ship traffic, for instance, consists of moving coal and gas and oil back and forth across the ocean to be burned, a delivery job the sun accomplishes each morning as it moves across the heavens.
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