This book about climate change and green energy gave me hope. So often these topics are downers, but McKibben makes me believe we can overcome our obstacles and find a path forward. Climate change is not a hoax. It is real, and we must address it, and we are addressing it. Also, anyone who titles their book after a Beatles song can't be all bad!
Every eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant's-worth of solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt the poles, poison our bodies and drive global inequality. It is no longer necessary: for the first time in 700,000 years, we know how to catch the sun's rays and convert them into energy.
In Here Comes the Sun, Bill McKibben tells the story of the spike in power from the sun and wind. McKibben traces the arrival of plentiful, inexpensive solar energy, which gives us a chance not just to limit climate change's damage but to reorder…
I'm a retired scientist, and I'm mad as hell about the federal government's treatment of science over the last year and a half. Science Under Siege shares my outrage. But it does more. It documents what is wrong, and explains why. From climate denial to vaccine hesitancy, we have to fight back against anti-science (I'm talking about you, RFK Jr). Michael Mann and Peter Hotez are leading the defense of science. Read this book and get inspired.
Two of the world's most respected scientists reveal the forces behind the dangerous antiscience movement - and show us how to fight back.
From pandemics to the climate crisis, humanity faces tougher challenges than ever. Whether it's the health of our people or the health of our planet, we know we are on an unsustainable path. But our efforts to effectively tackle these existential crises are now hampered by a common threat: politically and ideologically motivated opposition to science.
Michael Mann and Peter Hotez are two of the most respected and well-known scientists in the world, and have…
As a scientist, I support vaccines. But I have to admit there is a tradeoff between public health and individual liberty. If you want a reasonable, fair discussion of school vaccine mandates, I recommend America's New Vaccine Wars. My former Oakland University colleague Mark Navin and his coauthor Katie Attwell analyze mandates. You may or may not agree with them about everything, but you will learn a lot from this book. You won't find America's New Vaccine Wars on a best sellers list, but it is worth a read. Forget all the anti-vax hype, and engage in the thoughtful discussion we need so much.
Bioethicist Mark Navin and policy scholar Katie Attwell explore the evolution of American childhood vaccination policy through the prism of political history, contemporary parenthood, and diverse governance strategies. America's New Vaccine Wars focuses on the origins and the outcomes of America's recent efforts to eliminate nonmedical exemptions to school and daycare vaccine mandates. These policy developments have increased immunization rates, but they have also ignited polarizing, nationwide debates about parents' rights, democracy, and the authority of the government to use coercion to promote health. This book explores the meaning of these battles for parents, doctors, the politics of public health,…
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr has spent the last year and a half going after vaccines, and now it looks like he is setting his sites on cell phones and electromagnetic fields. Ignore all his anti-science nonsense. Read Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill? The short answer to the title's question is: No! Find out why.
