The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse

David Owen

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Penguin Publishing Group, 2012

1594485615 / 9781594485619

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272 pages. ex-library book, Look out for David Owen's next book,Where the Water Goes.The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real pat h to sustainability.Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bu lbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about living gree n is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car are dangerous fantasies. We are consumers, and we like to consume green and efficiently. But D avid Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross purposes to our tru e goal - living sustainably and caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problem s, turns out to be part of the problem. Efforts to improve efficiency and increa se sustainable development only exacerbate the problems they are meant to solve, more than negating the environmental gains. We have little trouble turning incr eases in efficiency into increases in consumption.David Owen's The Conund rum is an elegant nonfiction narrative filled with fascinating information and a necdotes takes you through the history of energy and the quest for efficiency. T his is a book about the environment that will change how you look at the world. We should not be waiting for some geniuses to invent our way out of the energy a nd economic crisis we're in. We already have the technology and knowledge we nee d to live sustainably. But will we do it?That is the conundrum.…

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Titolo
The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
Autore
David Owen
Editore
Penguin Publishing Group
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Condizione
Good
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1594485615
ISBN 13
9781594485619
Dimensioni
12.7cm x 1.6cm x 18.1cm
Cataloghi dei venditori
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Book Express (NZ)

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