Riverhead Books The conundrum: how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse, paperback/david owen
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Riverhead Books The conundrum: how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse, paperback/david owen

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Contributor(s):Author: David Owen Look 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.

  Review citations Publishers Weekly - pg.

68 - 12/05/2011Kirkus Reviews - 01/01/2012Booklist / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg.

16 - 02/15/2012Booklist / Exceptional Presentation - pg.

16 - 02/15/2012Booklist / Book Of Special Distinction - pg.

16 - 02/15/2012Booklist / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg.

16 - 02/15/2012Booklist / Highly Recommended - pg.

16 - 02/15/2012.

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Riverhead Books The conundrum: how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse, paperback/david owen

Riverhead Books The conundrum: how scientific innovation, increased efficiency, and good intentions can make our energy and climate problems worse, paperback/david owen

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