Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 339 pages
- Published by: Beaver's Pond Press June 15, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1592982352
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1592982356
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Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1.7 pounds
Product Review
Joe Shuster's
Beyond Fossil Fools opened my eyes. It is a political, economic, and financial epiphany. The book compellingly explains why the United States must move to clean, renewable, and affordable energy in the next thirty years. The book also illustrates how it is possible to reach the goal. The message is clear and convincing. Every policy maker, corporate executive, and thoughtful citizen must read this book and rally round the cause. --Tim Penny, former Democratic U.S. congressman, 1983-1995.
Product Description
If the U.S. solves only its own energy problem, but the world does not, then everyone still loses. Pollution knows no borders and a sinking ship takes down everyone on board. That is why all countries must do what they can to affect a global transition to all-renewable, clean energy by 2040. That means a coordinated global effort with global scope. That means leadership from the United States, Europe, China, India, and Japan. That means diligent commitment from average citizens around the world, and corporate and national leaders.
Reader ReviewsThis book is something you need to read if you are the least bit concerned about diminishing resources and your life in ten years. The book addresses a series of concerns - scarce resources, pollution, and costs of energy - that you may have had in the back of your mind, but haven't articulated. It walks you though what the energy - and that's really our lifeblood if you think about it - outlook is for the next thirty years with some hard data. And the outlook is not pretty as population increases and - even with massive conservation efforts - we'll need more energy than we have now. And the stuff to make energy - oil and natural gas - is running out as current prices seem to demonstrate. And coal is a really really dirty fuel. Did you know for example, that a coal fired power plant gives out many more times nuclear radiation than a nuclear plant does? The author proposes the means to get to energy independence - or energy neutrality - within thirty years by a combination of wind, solar, and nuclear power that can be done with current technology at relatively little cost. Heck - if we can spend seventy billion on a police action in Iraq, we certainly can do this. The proposal is well researched, and gives facts and figures that make sense. It's easy to read at any level and amazingly persuasive. Go buy it!
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