This post is from the website of U.C. Berkeley professor, John Harte. If only solving climate change were fundamentally about science and sound policy, and not so much about economic interests and politics.
About the Book
What is global warming? What are its consequences, left unchecked? How do we solve it?
Written as a concise primer for everyone – interested citizens, policymakers, students – “Cool the Earth, Save the Economy” answers these and other important questions about the greatest challenge facing mankind. This challenge, the climate crisis, must be solved as soon as possible because the longer we wait, the more severe the consequences will be for all of us.
This challenge, the climate crisis, must be solved as soon as possible because the longer we wait, the more severe and ruinously expensive the consequences will be for all of us. The book’s main focus is how to solve the climate crisis. The book:
- presents a feasible plan to reduce current annual US carbon emissions by 75% by the year 2030;
- proposes an innovative policy [See the EASY Plan & Policy.] without carbon sequestration, ethanol, expanded nuclear power, a carbon tax, and cap and trade;
- reviews and assesses alternative approaches and technologies.
How much will the plan cost? How easy can it be? The answers will surprise you.
Download it now, and start reading!
About the Authors
Prof. John Harte of the University of California at Berkeley has won numerous awards and honors as an ecologist and an established environmental scientist and author. He and his work have been featured in Mother Jones, on the Bill Moyer’s show, NPR’s Marketplace and Science Friday, and elsewhere. His most recent award was a George Polk prize in journalism in 2006 for his work on the Early Signs Project. His book, Consider a Spherical Cow: A Course in Environmental Problem Solving, published initially in 1985, continues to be a widely used, classic textbook in the field of environmental science.
Besides co-authoring the online book Cool the Earth, Save the Economy, Mary Ellen Harte Ph.D produces the weekly series, the Climate Change Report Podcasts. Since 1999, she has produced and hosted a weekly summer radio program, Nature Notes, about natural history in the Colorado Rockies. She is the first author of the Huffingtonpost blog series, Addressing Climate Change with John, and has worked as a consultant on various environmental projects and publications for him for decades. As a professional biologist her diagnostic digital images of flora have appeared in various online and offline media. Previous professional experience includes degrees, research and publications in marine science.
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