Name: The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions can Make our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
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Author: David Owen
ISBN: 9781594485619

portada The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions can Make our Energy and Climate Problems Worse

The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions can Make our Energy and Climate Problems Worse

Type

Physical Book

Author

David Owen

Publisher

Riverhead

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

261

Format

Paperback

ISBN

1594485615

ISBN13

9781594485619

Synopsis "The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions can Make our Energy and Climate Problems Worse "

Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes.The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability. Hybrid 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.David Owen's The Conundrum 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?That is the conundrum.

David Owen

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David Anthony Llewellyn Owen (Plymouth, 2 de julio de 1938) es un destacado político británico, médico de formación y miembro de la Cámara de los Lores, reconocido por su papel en el Partido Laborista y posteriormente por cofundar el Partido Socialdemócrata (SDP). Estudió medicina en la Universidad de Cambridge y St Thomas's Hospital, ejerciendo la neurología antes de dedicarse a la política.

Inició su carrera parlamentaria en 1966, ocupando cargos importantes bajo gobiernos laboristas, destacando como ministro de Sanidad (1974-1976) y secretario de Estado de Asuntos Exteriores y de la Commonwealth (1977-1979), siendo uno de los más jóvenes en el cargo. En 1981, descontento con el giro a la izquierda del Partido Laborista, cofundó el SDP, liderándolo entre 1983 y 1990.

En 1992 fue nombrado par vitalicio (Lord Owen) y actuó como negociador de paz de la UE en la antigua Yugoslavia (1992-1995), coautor del plan Vance-Owen. Además de su carrera política, es autor de varios libros, destacando En el poder y en la enfermedad (2008), donde analiza el impacto de las dolencias físicas y mentales en jefes de Estado. Se ha mantenido activo en política como independiente.

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