Chapter 12 - from The End of Nature - Exploring the Text: McKibben confesses that perhaps there is room for hope if we take action now, casting today in italics (para. 24) in 1989. He then writes, “And if what I fear indeed happens? If the next twenty years sees us pump ever more gas into the sky, and if it sees us take irrevocable steps into the genetically engineered future, what solace then?” (para. 26). We now know what those twenty years (and more) have seen. Do you think that we can still “hope against hope,” as McKibben puts it? Explain.