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Who Turned Out the Lights? - Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis (Paperback)
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Who Turned Out the Lights? - Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis (Paperback)
Series: Guided Tour of the Economy
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List price R395
Loot Price R273
Discovery Miles 2 730
You Save R122 (31%)
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We are on the verge of a crippling energy crisis that could
undermine our economy and change our way of life. In "Who Turned
Out the Lights?", Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, editors of the
award-winning nonpartisan Web site PublicAgenda.org, offer a
much-needed reality check. Neither 'Drill, Baby, Drill' nor 'Every
Day is Earth Day' is an effective energy policy, and these kinds of
ideological roadblocks have left us spinning our wheels for too
long. If we don't get our act together and do something now, we'll
be scrambling to get the energy we need to make life as we know it
possible. But while the topic is serious, learning what you need to
know about it doesn't have to be. Featuring chapters entitled 'Dam
It: Hydroelectric Power' and 'Time for the Nuclear Option?' and
sidebars like 'This little piggy went to market while this little
piggy passed laws', this book will be anything but dry. By applying
the same winning approach they used to irreverently explain the
federal budget crisis in "Where Does the Money Go?" , Bittle and
Johnson will use pop culture to help define the fundamental
concepts that shape the debate and explain the three risks we face:
that we won't be able to afford the energy we need, that we'll be
dangerously dependent on foreign energy, and that we'll destroy the
planet before we have a chance to solve the problem. They will also
help readers understand the pros and cons of a range of ideas on
the agenda, including alternative fuels, nuclear power, clean coal,
electric cars, fixing up our houses, taxing carbon emissions, and
many more. In the end, the authors take one position: we must
change the way we get and use energy, and there's no more time to
waste. Beyond that, they'll leave how to get from here to there as
an open question - one Americans simply have to understand better
and tackle head on.
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