The Decarbonization Delusion
What 3.5 Billion Years of Biological Sustainability Can Teach Us
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 February 2024
- ISBN 9780197664834
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 163x224x45 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 51 B&W Illustrations 533
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Short description:
Many politicians, industry leaders, and even some scientists advocate replacing carbon-based energy carriers with other elements and mineral-based solutions. But in The Decarbonization Delusion, Andrew Moore argues that we should instead look to the biological Earth as a model for how humans can use carbon sustainably. Moore challenges the idea that the race to decarbonize is good for the planet. In fact, he argues that doing so could lead us further down the road to environmental disaster. Heavily researched, The Decarbonization Delusion uses sound reasoning and solid data to demonstrate why carbon should continue to play a critical role in our energy economies.
MoreLong description:
Could the race to de-carbonize our energy systems be leading us closer to environmental disaster?
Why did biology choose carbon, in a variety of compounds, as its energy carrier and storage substance? From the smallest life forms, through multicellular organisms, and up to whole ecosystems, this economy of carbon compounds is fundamentally sustainable. Yet today, many are working to expunge carbon-based energy carriers from human economies, replacing them with solutions based on other elements and minerals. In The Decarbonization Delusion, independent scientist and writer Andrew Moore shows that the race to decarbonize is leading us further down the road to environmental degradation. Instead of banishing carbon, Moore argues that we should look to life on Earth, which has used carbon in highly sustainable ways for 3.5 billion years, as a model for how humans can use carbon sustainably.
The Decarbonization Delusion begins by discussing carbon's role in the inception of the universe and its critical importance in biology. Moore identifies many intriguing features of biology's use of carbon that are crucial to creating sustainable human economies on Earth. Throughout, Moore draws on extensive research and original calculations to disprove common fallacies about carbon-based energy carriers and their alternatives. For example, he shows that the widely perceived superiority of battery technology over carbon-based fuels is, in most regards, a serious misconception that, if not corrected, could have grave environmental consequences.
Politicians, industrial leaders, and even some scientists have contributed to the widespread belief that carbon should have no place in our energy economies. In The Decarbonization Delusion, Moore argues against this idea, asking us to re-think our assumptions and approach sustainable energy development in a more scientific and dispassionate fashion.
n his new, exquisitely researched and brilliantly written book, Andrew Moore tackles the topic of carbon, from every angle. He doesn't lecture us on how bad the problem is (we know it's bad). He informs us on the environmental, industrial and societal impact of carbon in human existence through history and what avenues are open to us to improve life on our planet, for those of us around today and for those in coming generations. It is a must-read and a great present for anyone with an interest in why our climate is changing, what we can do about it, and what problems are the hardest en route to making human existence net-carbon-neutral.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Chapter 1: What carbon "does" in the universe - From the first stars to life on Earth
Chapter 2: The carbon economy of nutrition and food production - Getting out of control in most respects
Chapter 3: Sources and sinks - Where carbon compounds accumulate on Earth, and what they do there
Chapter 4: Fuels, efficiency, and emissions - Understanding carbon-based energy carriers in the larger picture of sustainability
Chapter 5: The call to "decarbonize" - Public perception, hard-to-abate carbon-positives, and hard-to-achieve carbon-negatives
Chapter 6: Decarbonizing the car - Trading off CO2 against larger environmental problems?
Chapter 7: A carbonaceous, biology-inspired recipe for sensible and environmentally-conscious energy economies
List of figures
References
Index of topics
