Why read A Bright Future?

Book cover of A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

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As climate change begins to take a serious toll on the planet--with much more damage yet to come--a solution to our warming problems is hiding in plain sight. We need to commit to de-carbonizing our economy, and do so immediately, but so far we have lacked the courage to really…

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1 author picked A Bright Future as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

David Schweickart

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I read this book to stay true to my commitment, inspired by John Stuart Mill, to always make an effort to understand the strongest against your own convictions (a key reason for always including Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom in my political philosophy courses). Like most progressives in the 70s, I was part of the anti-nuclear movement, not just opposition to nuclear weapons, but to nuclear power as well. I did not expect this book to radically shift these commitments—but it did. Not the first one, but the second. I realized on reading this book that I had not thought…

From David's list on The best books that will change the way you look at climate change.