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Farewell Fossil Fuels: Renewing Am. Energy Policy [Hardcover]

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Energy has become America's forgotten crisis. For more than a decade, Americans have become stridently complacent toward the use and especially the availability of energy to fuel most aspects of our economic and recreational lives. Memories of the oil shocks of the 1970s have grown very dim. Long lines at gas stations have been replaced by people at auto dealers buying gas-guzzling sports-utility vehicles. The United States now imports more oil (over 50% more) than it did prior to the first oil crisis in 1973-74. Yet our reliance on fossil fuels has not been tempered by history. The threat of global warming from greenhouse gases is real and significant.

Fossil fuels-petroleum, natural gas, and coal-are finite. They will run out and are not restorable. This obviously carries significant political and environmental implications for our future. However, we do have alternatives. In Farewell Fossil Fuels: Reviewing America's Energy Policy (Perseus Books, June 15, 1999), noted scientist and businessman Sidney Borowitz presents a concise, coherent narrative of the major sources of energy currently in use throughout the world, and explains in a cogent, jargon-free manner how these sources of energy can be developed. Borowitz places these nonfossil fuel sources in an economic and scientific context so that the case for conservation and growth is thoroughly grounded in reality.

Sidney Borowitz presents a clear-eyed, even-handed explication of optimal solutions to our future energy needs. And because energy touches on practically every aspect of our daily lives, Farewell Fossil Fuels is of vital importance to our future and the future of our children.

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Sidney Borowitz has had a long and distinguished career as a scientist, teacher, administrator, and businessman. A professor of physics, emeritus, at New York University, he has served as Chancellor of that institution. In addition, he has also been Executive Director of the New York Academy of Sciences and the CEO of a biotechnology company.

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