Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming | Fred Krupp, Miriam Horn | Can Our Civilization Survive?

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	Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming Fred Krupp, Miriam Horn W. W. Norton, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 52 reviews view larger image
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Earth The Sequel, Hope or Hype

Earth the Sequel offers hope at a time when it's in short supply from a direction you might hate and least expect.

Do you believe corporations are soulless and are responsible for all our modern ills including the climate crisis? Do you think the entrepreneurial spirit leads down the road to damnation? Read this book and you may have second thoughts.

Increased consumerism and the disproportionate use of our limited earth resources is a topic not addressed in this book, while it does beg that question. Still, Krupp leaves us with hope that the entrepreneurial spirit may buy us enough time to address global warming in the near future and that corporations will find it in their best intrests to change their wasteful ways.

Krupp introduces us to modern day Ben Franklins who are engaging and engaged and shows us some possible solutions that may work. He doesn't say any of these specific ones will, just that some of them might, and that given sufficient financial incentives, if not these, then other solutions will be found.

Krupp's is a point of view definitely worth considering.

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Can Our Civilization Survive?

Can this planet-wide civilization find a way to survive or will it collapse like the Mayans or Easter Island as overpopulation & resource depletion reach irreversible levels? I've personally seen this crisis coming since 1950, when I was in high school. World population has tripled in my lifetime, fossil fuel consumption growth has been even worse, the energy & mineral resources that underlie technological civilization become ever scarcer & more costly, and our pollution of the atmosphere threatens to cause catastrophic alterations in the global climate. While it's too late to avoid a lot of serious pain, there is still time to avert massive collapse if (a big if) we can get political & economic leaders to shift course promptly.
This book, Earth: The Sequel, spells out the range of paths that could lead us to succeed. The authors have sought out the people & companies who are working on affordable, non-polluting energy of all sorts. The book is full of fascinating stories about creative people who are inventing the technologies that can get us off fossil fuels & avert world disaster. It is well written & as readable as a novel. Get one now; give copies to your friends & your legislators.

Robert Orser (using my wife, Teri Davis' e-mail & Amazon acct., through which I ordered the book.)

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Positive and inspiring, but quite dry & technical.

Gave me reason to feel somewhat positive about the world's future (a rarity these days). It's a slow read for non-scientists, best taken in small bites.

Overly opptomistic view of our technological & industrial capacit

This is a well researched vehicle which makes a lot of sense if the U.S. government gives up its militaristic approach to economics. All the breakthroughs previewed in the book are possible, but need capital which is now going down the wartime drain, and the paranoic need to keep our country defended militarily. While we have the strongest military, we now have the weakest economy. When we change our economic priorities we may be able to create industry which really meets the needs of our people!!

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