Perhaps most telling of all, McKibben describes pre-revolutionary America as a «paradise» (42), insists that we need to «
rise out of the wreckage we have made of the world» (147), and longs openly for a lost Eden — the «sweet and wild garden» that humanity has replaced with «a greenhouse» (78).
It's owned by John Bassett, the Canadian sports and entertainment entrepreneur who was the only owner to
rise unscathed
out of the
wreckage of the World Football League, which failed in 1975 after two years.