Name: A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest can Follow
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Author: Steven Pinker
ISBN: 9781541724112

portada A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest can Follow

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Physical Book

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Preface by

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Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9781541724112

Synopsis "A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest can Follow"

The first book to offer a proven, fast, inexpensive, and practical way to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prevent catastrophic climate change. As climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries have already replaced fossil fuels with low-carbon energy sources, and done so rapidly, in one to two decades. By following their methods, we could decarbonize the global economy by midcentury, replacing fossil fuels even while world energy use continues to rise. But so far we have lacked the courage to really try. In this clear-sighted and compelling book, Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist explain how clean energy quickly replaced fossil fuels in such places as Sweden, France, South Korea, and Ontario. Their people enjoyed prosperity and growing energy use in harmony with the natural environment. They didn't do this through personal sacrifice, nor through 100 percent renewables, but by using them in combination with an energy source the Swedes call käkraft, hundreds of times safer and cleaner than coal. Clearly written and beautifully illustrated, yet footnoted with extensive technical references, Goldstein and Qvist's book will provide a new touchstone in discussions of climate change. It could spark a shift in world energy policy that, in the words of Steven Pinker's foreword, literally saves the world.

Steven Pinker

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Steven Pinker es un psicólogo experimental que realiza investigaciones en cognición visual, psicolingüística y relaciones sociales. Es licenciado en McGill y tiene un doctorado en Harvard. Actualmente es Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology en Harvard y ha enseñado en Stanford y MIT. Ha ganado numerosos premios por investigaciones, enseñanza y sus libros. Es miembro electo de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias. Escribe con frecuencia en el New York Times y The Guardian.

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