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Prescription for the Planet: The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises (Paperback)
by Tom Blees (Author)
Book Details
* Paperback: 422 pages
* Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (September 16, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1419655825
* ISBN-13: 978-1419655821
* Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
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Book Description
An end to greenhouse gas emissions, a global framework to control nuclear proliferation, a preemptive remedy to looming water wars, and unlimited energy worldwide are just a few of the concrete solutions offered up in Tom Blees’s brilliant and timely Prescription for the Planet. Everyone is worried about global warming, energy wars, resource depletion, and air pollution. But nobody has yet come up with a real plan to resolve these problems that can actually work-until now. Prescription for the Planet proposes a workable blueprint to virtually eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of this century and solve a host of other seemingly intractable global problems.
Solving our planet’s most pressing dilemmas requires more than simply setting goals. We need a roadmap to reach them. Technologies that work fine on a small scale cannot necessarily be ramped up to global size. Worldwide environmental and social problems require a bold vision for the future that includes feasible planet-wide solutions with all the details. Prescription for the Planet explains how a trio of little-known yet profoundly revolutionary technologies, coupled with their judicious use in an atmosphere of global cooperation, can be the springboard that carries humanity to an era beyond scarcity. And with competition for previously scarce resources no longer an issue, the main incentives for warfare will be eliminated.
Explaining not only the means to solve our most pressing problems but how those solutions can painlessly lead to improving the standard of living of everyone on the planet, Blees’s lucid and provocatively written Prescription for the Planet has arrived not a moment too soon. There is something here for everyone, be they a policymaker, environmental activist, or any concerned citizen hoping for a better future.
Prescription for the Planet Review
This book is a must read for people who want to be informed about our worsening energy and ecology crisis. Before I read this book, I was opposed to nuclear power for the usual reasons: weapons proliferation and the waste problem. But also because I had read that in fact nuclear power was not as clean as advertised nor as cost competitive as advertised and was, moreover, not a renewable form of energy, as it depends upon depleting stocks of uranium, which would become an especially acute problem in the event of “a nuclear renaissance.” Before I read this book, I was also of the opinion that growth economies (meaning for now global capitalism) were in the process of becoming unsustainable, that, as a consequence, our global economy would itself unravel due to increasing energy costs and the inability of renewable technologies genuinely and humanely to solve the global transport problem of finding real replacements for the billions of gallons of gasoline consumed by the global economy, and the billions more gallons required to fuel the growth imperative. I was thus attracted to the most egalitarian versions of Richard Heinberg’s power down/relocalization thesis.
Finally a plain spoken description of three existing technologies that are capable of solving America’s problems of dependence on foreign oil, and the impacts of climate change.
Backed by the scientists and engineers who have developed these technologies, the author clearly lays out how the technologies interlock to close the waste cycle, thus precluding the need for further resource extraction. The application of these technologies worldwide have the potential to significantly attenuate the impacts of global warming. The implementation of these technologies has the potential to end the resource wars that currently dominate the geopolitical landscape of the 21st century.
If you are interested in solutions to our energy problems, and a real solution to world peace please consider reading, and passing on this book as it may be.