In ''RADIO FREE VERMONT,'' set for paperback release in October, the editors of Bill McKibben's fun-to-read 'cli-fi lite' novel lowercase the word EARTH all through the text, calling our home planet as "earth" rather than "Earth," with a capital E. Let's hope Bill can ask his editors to rectify this glaring gaffe in the paperback edition. Bill?

In RADIO FREE VERMONT, set for paperback release in October, 2018, the editors of Bill McKibben's cli-fi lite novel lowercase the word EARTH all through the text, calling our home planet as "earth" rather than "Earth," with a capital E.

Let's hope Bill can ask his editors to rectify this glaring gaffe in the paperback edition.

Bill?



Bill" Can you do anything about this? Your editors do not answer my emails or tweets. It's a wonderful book, I loved reading it, but hey, Mr 350.0RG, our home planet should be capped in first letter E, as in Earth. The New York Times Climate Desk (and the entire newspaper itself) also has a problem with lowercasing the word EARTH, and of all people, YOU BILL should stand up for the Earth and demand that your editors fix the gaffe in the paperback edition. Or at least issue an apology or an explanation for lowercasing the word all through the text.

EXAMPLES:

Page 4

Did you know we had more breweries per capita than any place on earth?

Please fix to read:

Did you know we had more breweries per capita than any place on Earth?

Page 96

''In 1777, while still an indepedent republic, Vermont became the first sovereign state on earth to constitutionally outlaw slavery...''

Please fix to read:

''In 1777, while still an indepedent republic, Vermont became the first sovereign state on Earth to constitutionally outlaw slavery...''

Page 97

''...that would make America the the most democratically educated place on earth....''

Please fix to read:

''...that would make America the the most democratically educated place on Earth....''

Page 2

But funny, Bill on page 2 this sentence caps the word earth as ''Earth,'' the only time in the entire book that this is allowed.  The lowecasing of the name of our home planet Earth (lowercased as ''earth'' each time) occurs through the book, almost 34,513 times....

WAKE UP, BILL, and I know you are awake, very awake, so wake up your editors and proofreaders for the paperback edition, or at least make an attempt to wake them up, and while you are at it, try to wake up the New York Times editors the Climate Desk, too. They lowercase earth every time. Go look!

BUT: Our home planet deserves a cap E, yes or no?

SEE: page 2:

''The other 34,513 Starbucks scatttered across the planet Earth and aboard our...''