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rynoisneato
, May 23, 2015
You need to read this book. It's smart and thoughtful, but more importantly it's useful in your everyday life today and essential for how we can sensibly change our wasteful, destructive lifestyles into making more sensible decisions that will steer us clear of a potentially disastrous future. Our continued reliance on today's energy sources is literally unsustainable.
Don't let the seemingly science-heavy tech talk scare you away from this all-too-important discussion. Stayton's science know-how educates instead of alienating less tech-savvy readers, which is paramount to the book's success since the subject matter pertains to every single living creature on earth.
Stayton poignantly explains how we got where we are today, what's stopped us from making the changes we need to make and how we can practically usher in this exciting new (though really it's not remotely new) technology. It's certainly not something that can happen overnight, but it is something that can start happening today with your help. Solar energy is increasingly cost-effective, years beyond necessary and the most abundant, reliable energy source we've had or will ever have. With a shift to solar, we won't have to worry about another sweeping energy change until we move to Mars.
It's chock full of quirky, insightful, entertaining nuggets of dinner party conversation fodder reminiscent of Malcolm Gladwell, par example:
* The first car built by Ferdinand Porsche was electric (1898).
* The average US city holds three days' worth of food on grocery shelves.
* Replacing every US farm tractor in use today with horses would require 250M horses.
This book will literally change your life, leaving you inspired, educated and armed to find easy, short term solutions plus longterm necessary solutions preserving the benefits we reap from modern technology without compromising future generations' quality of life.
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