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Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0141988436
ISBN-13 : 36
Item Weight : 2.24 pounds
Dimensions : 8.54 x 0.67 x 10.83 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,815,726 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Customer Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,603 ratings
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“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.” ( H. G. Wells) F-ing truth! How do you know what you believe is true?! Young people say: “You put it to a test!” Well, who among us are in the busines of testing? F-ing Scientists! Among many nasty things they were doing for the past one hundred years, they were “screaming and yelling” about the climate change… And what are they doing now? They are washing their hands and putting the masks on. They are also, kindly advising us to do the same… By now, almost every one of us heard notions: “world is what you believe it to be”, or “your perception defines your reality”, or “self-fulfilling prophecy” and the favorite notion of the “new age”: - “you create your reality”. That “common knowledge” has saturated our culture, becoming so trivial and notorious, that more and more of us even feel nausea when we hear those expressions. Almost like the notion: “climate change”. However, even those of us who don’t trust politicians, journalists and even scientists, are forced to acknowledge that even in the course of their own relatively short life, the world has changed very drastically in so many ways. The extent of the change, however, is a “half of the problem”. The real kicker is; the world is continuing to change faster and faster. Not many parents are excited about the future of their children as much as they were excited about their own future. It would be tragic to assume that the new generation, in general, is not excited about their own future. And our best people have been working on it day and night. By now we, people, know what is happening and we even know why exactly it is happening. We’ve known that for more than hundred years. We don’t need another “scientific argument” that the change is affecting everything: not only weather patterns, ecosystems, ice sheets, islands, coastlines, and cities across the planet, but the health, safety and security of every person alive and the generations to come. Many books have been written, excellent movies and documentaries about the forward escape promised by our technologies. Some argue: “too many”! We don’t want that knowledge simply because we don’t know what to do about it! In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals and scientists has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold pragmatic solutions to the problems that manifest themselves today not only on global but already on individual scale. One hundred techniques and practices have been described in the book published in 2017. The solutions were ranked based on: how cost effective they are; how quickly they can be implemented; or how beneficial they are to society. The relative importance of one solution may differ depending on geography, economic conditions, or sector. Well, one thing you need is to start somewhere. Where do you start?
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Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2020 by Korban F
Has some good points but also seems as promoting specifics that leave to wonder if special interests had their hand in promoting certain advantages/disadvantages - or lessen their stated impact. I am a big proponent to stop climate change/slow it down as much as possible. I am also a big proponent of Zero Waste. My expertise is dealing with waste. I was very much looking forward to the book. I am quite disappointed in the sections about Waste to Energy and Landfilling in that you FAILED to portrait the most important aspect of landfilling - the future cost and the future environmental impact of landfills. They are engineered structures and they will fail (could have yesterday - even the best - and we might not see the impact until it is too late). You are correct that WTE should serve as an interim solution as our priority should be to avoid waste all together. However, that is utopian for now, never the less should be our goal and focus to getting to. I am disappointed in the write-up/portrait of landfills as they are the real beast that need to be fed. Landfills should be priced adequately in order to promote the development of alternatives that are much more expansive - you get what you pay for (cheap = low quality/less of a sustainable solution). Currently, this book plays into the hands of the landfill industry and I am very concerned that the someone in the process of putting this book together received a check either directly or indirectly to lessen the language on the real problem - in this case landfills! Our recycling rates are very low and often stated false. A stated 50% recycling rate is likely significantly lower because there are substantial limits to recycling starting from single bin collection (at source much more efficient) to selling this often low-quality stuff to brokers which then erase all traceability. Working with international agencies, environmental organizations and research engines and political parties (i.e. German Green Party - who thus far has been one of the only tangible entities in the political environmental field that adequately addressed landfills: black boxes, least sustainable, feature problems for many generations and WTE being part of the solutions just as waste avoidance and recycling -> on the road to zero waste. On the road to zero waste cheap, inadequate priced landfills (ex: below $100 or possibly $200) are the real reason why we are still a long, long road from zero waste to landfill. It was also stated that companies like Interface, Subaru, Toyota and Google have committed to zero landfill and yet these 'statements' usually depend on what the vendor/landfill companies aka conveniently also now the 'recycling' companies state such as that all is recycled etc. - which simply isn't the case - maybe 1/2. A real commitment can only happen once we realize that landfilling, especially cheap landfilling like in the US, is seen as the foundation of the problem (other than economic growth/our orientation toward consuming and the whole engine behind that). Further, the authors need to get their facts straight regarding technologies: it was stated in the Impact conclusion of WTE chapter page 29, to employing more advanced technologies, such as plasma gasification – that is yet a technology that continues to fail to show it actually works. This can be backed up by numerus publications from technology INDEPENDENT research engines. Employing non-working technologies such as plasma gasification will result in significantly more harm to the environment than proven mass burn incineration technology. Again, was there a payment involved from the vendor? Don’t want to insult the authors/publishers but get your facts straight! WTE produces 10 times more energy than if the 'waste' is landfilled (US EPA). Further, for each ton treated at a modern state of the art WTE (incineration - sounds evil ... incineration... but considering the fluegas treatment technology available today and the ability to recovery metals, glas, etc - much better and less evil than landfills that are more or less just organized holes in the ground (using best available technologies of bottom liners and top caps landfill gas collection system horizontal vertical etc etc) versus being landfilled minimum of one ton of CO2 is avoided (using IPCC numbers - newest IPCC 5th. assessment is substantial higher than 1 ton). Further, there is a large distinction between bottom ash and fly ash. Fly ash is less than 5% of ingoing waste. Bottom ash, if processed correctly and kept separate from fly ash can be used safely as an aggregate. Landfilling, not WTE is the problem!!!! And yes, zero waste, not producing it in the first place is key – but cheap landfilling does not make such developments economical. Waste is a resource (like in the EU) and in the US, we still see waste as waste, which also contributes to the misunderstanding about landfilling. Good points in the book but get your facts straight!!!!
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Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2017 by P. Schmidt-Pathmann