Reviews for Clean Energy Common Sense

The average rating for Clean Energy Common Sense based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-01-29 00:00:00 Cassidy Harwell Read in a few hours. Amazingly informational without being dry. The facts are astonishing. Hopefully, this book finds its way into the hands of those who need it most.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-28 00:00:00 Richard Watson Frances Beinecke is the president of NRDC-National Resources Defense Council. She wrote this readable 102 page text á la Thomas Paine's Common Sense pamphlet. Her goal is to make the case that we must act now to stem global warming. (p 71) Americans spent a record $450 billion on imported oil in 2008. American dollars - $1,400 for every man, woman and child in this country - sent overseas to places like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Russia. Half a trillion dollars, in a single year, earned in this country and then set abroad, beyond the reach of our people. Half a trillion dollars that will never be used to improve our health care, our factories, our schools. She then asks is that's the best we can do with half a trillion dollars, and if such a policy will make us strong and secure. This gem of a book is filled with facts that, coupled with what we see happening around us offers an irrefutable picture of global warming. Yet, as Reinecke points out, there are those who deny that global warming exists, and unfortunately, some of these people are in positions of elected power or economic strength (Exxon-Mobil). We need to rescue our earth from global warming's impact, or face the very real possibility that global warring - based on environmental factors - will be the legacy we leave.