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Conundrum : How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse by David Owen (2012, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-101594485615

ISBN-139781594485619

eBay Product ID (ePID)109106404

Product Key Features

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

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicEnvironmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Consumer Behavior, Environmental / General, Green Lifestyle, Power Resources / General, Public Policy / Environmental Policy

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Self-Help, Science, Business & Economics

AuthorDavid Owen

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight6.9 Oz

Item Length7.1 in

Item Width5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-028855

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"Owen's unflinching perspective is particularly refreshing. "--Mother Jones "Elegant... Owen's core argument is not that we shouldn't try to save the environment. Rather, he says that our focus on technological innovation, particularly efficiency, is misguided." --Slate "A contrarian page-turner" --Bloomberg Businessweek

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

SynopsisLook 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 path to sustainability. Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've been told about living green 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 David Owen argues that our best intentions are still at cross purposes to our true goal - living sustainably and caring for our environment and the future of the planet. Efficiency, once considered the holy grail of our environmental problems, turns out to be part of the problem. Efforts to improve efficiency and increase sustainable development only exacerbate the problems they are meant to solve, more than negating the environmental gains. We have little trouble turning increases in efficiency into increases in consumption. David Owen's The Conundrum is an elegant nonfiction narrative filled with fascinating information and anecdotes takes you through the history of energy and the quest for efficiency. This 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 and economic crisis we're in. We already have the technology and knowledge we need to live sustainably. But will we do it? That is the conundrum.

LC Classification NumberTD148.O94 2012