Name: No Miracles Needed
ISBN: 9781009249546

Mark Z. Jacobson

How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air

No Miracles Needed

Andrew John Kinney

There is so much to like in this book, and so much to learn from it. That said, it is written a bit like a textbook, so it can be a bit dry. My recommendation would be to start at the end, with "My Journey", which describes how Jacobson came to be so involved with the solutions side of decarbonization, and explains a lot about his personal optimism about moving the world toward a future which does not include fossil fuels. 

Jacobson's basic argument, backed up by a plethora of facts drawn from his career as an engineer and current head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford is that speed matters. We have a limited window left to convert world economies from fossil fuels to zero-emission energy, and we don't have time to waste on unproven solutions, or solutions which require decades to deploy. This is especially true because we have no shortage of viable renewable energy sources.

Excellent primer on what we need to do, right now.

No Miracles Needed How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air

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