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Type
Textbook
ISBN
9781982111298
Book Title
After Cooling : on Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
Item Length
9in
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Year
2021
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.6in
Author
Eric Dean Wilson
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, Science, Social Science
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Construction / Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Global Warming & Climate Change, Chemistry / Industrial & Technical, Chemistry / Organic, Essays
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
22.2 Oz
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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This "ambitious [and] delightful" ( The New York Times ) work of literary nonfiction interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world. In After Cooling , Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. As he traces the refrigerant's life span from its invention in the 1920s--when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress--to efforts in the 1980s to ban the chemical (and the resulting political backlash), Wilson finds himself on a journey through the American heartland, trailing a man who buys up old tanks of Freon stockpiled in attics and basements to destroy what remains of the chemical before it can do further harm. Wilson is at heart an essayist, looking far and wide to tease out what particular forces in American culture--in capitalism, in systemic racism, in our values--combined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. "Meticulously researched and engagingly written" (Amitav Ghosh), this "knockout debut" ( New York Journal of Books ) offers a rare glimpse of environmental hope, suggesting that maybe the vast and terrifying problem of global warming is not beyond our grasp to face.

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1982111291
ISBN-13
9781982111298
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2321454398

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Book Title
After Cooling : on Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
Author
Eric Dean Wilson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Construction / Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Global Warming & Climate Change, Chemistry / Industrial & Technical, Chemistry / Organic, Essays
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, Science, Social Science
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
22.2 Oz

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Reviews
"A spectacularly interesting read! After Cooling offers a lively history of air-conditioning and explores all the complexities of the fight over Freon." -- Eula Biss, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of On Immunity, "Thoughtful, rigorous, and rich with lessons for our warming world.'" -- Robert Moor, bestselling author of On Trails, "A tour de force on the steep costs of living in a world that prioritizes personal comfort... as urgent as it is idealistic... Wilson's impressive take offers climate-minded readers much to consider." -- Publishers Weekly, "Meticulously researched and engagingly written, After Cooling is essential reading for the planetary crisis." -- Amitav Ghosh, bestselling author of The Great Derangement, "As entertaining as it is edifying. You'll learn what put a 'hole' in the ozone layer, how the Rivoli movie theatre in New York inaugurated our present ice age, who in this country is still hoarding Freon, how air conditioning is exacerbating heat waves - and lots of other ecological horrors. This is a brilliantly researched book." -- Edmund White, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of City Boy, "As much sociopolitical commentary as history of science... Wilson digs deeply into the linkages between Western desire for material comfort and racial oppression, including critiques of capitalism and profit-seeking industry." -- Science, " After Cooling is a deeply discomforting book - and that's the point. Eric Dean Wilson's message, which could not be more timely, is that we need to rethink how we live and what we want." -- Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Under a White Sky
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