Book description
Life on 1/10th the fossil fuels turns out to be awesome.
We all want to be happy. Yet as we consume ever more in a frantic bid for happiness, global warming worsens.
Alarmed by drastic changes now occurring in the Earth's climate systems, the author, a climate scientist and suburban…
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Of all the books I have read on the Climate Crisis, this is the clearest about what to do and an easy, good read.
Dr. Peter Kalmus sees the gravity of the climate crisis up close every day in his work as a scientist studying clouds and climate change at NASA, but his book is not a technical treatise. Faced with alarming changes in the earth’s systems created by human activity, he realizes he must do something. He cannot sit back and watch the slow-motion destruction of our life support system, our biosphere. He explains exactly what we are up…
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