Big Coal
(Jeff Goodell)
"Big Coal" by Jeff GoodellThis book sees every item in the Coal World as being related to the much touted but unfounded concept of Global Warming or "The Sky is Falling Henny Penny". Some how the author hopes we (the people of earth) can find a solution that uses coal in a "cash for carbon" scam. Any child in China can tell you this won't work (if you do not like children ask his goverment). It appears from time to time as you plow though this 350 page tome that a plan may be forth comming but you would be wrong. That is not the point of the book. The point is coal bad, big business bad, western civilization very bad (also book bad). 3 years of research is a lot of research 244 notations but apparently no knowledge is gained beyond the original thought of bad bad bad. The reader is adrift in a sea of preconceived ideas starving for a factoid to sustain mental health.The book fails to do more than turn the authors belief system into a one note opera of an incredible boring agenda. You are left with the feeling the book came from the never ending story board of the PG&E Company. At PG& ETrite is never enough; while we are at it PG&E please in the name of all that is good stop letting that kid yell SUN-WIND-WATER and do something with these elements.I got this book at the library in the hope of learning something about improving my energy use habits but in the end I feel used by the endless profiling of the author.Jeff Gooell writes very well for Rolling Stone perhaps he should stay with subjects he undrstands and an audiece that wears it's collective Ludite hat backwards, leaving serious writing to serious writers...
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