{"product_id":"the-conundrum-how-scientific-innovation-increased-efficiency-and-good-intentions-can-make-our-energy-and-climate-problems-worse-paperback","title":"The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Owen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cb\u003eLook out for David Owen's next book, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhere the Water Goes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability. \u003cp\u003eHybrid 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Owen's \u003ci\u003eThe Conundrum\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is the conundrum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Owen\u003c\/b\u003e is a staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand the author more than a dozen books. He lives in northwest Connecticut with his wife, the writer Ann Hodgman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 7.08 x 5.05 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51985742037293,"sku":"9781594485619","price":26.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/AR9avOnyLT9781594485619.webp?v=1776138783","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-conundrum-how-scientific-innovation-increased-efficiency-and-good-intentions-can-make-our-energy-and-climate-problems-worse-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}