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Our Livable World

Creating the Clean Earth of Tomorrow

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Our Livable World

By: Marc Schaus
Narrated by: Matthew Boston
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There's finally reason to hope. Climate change is the existential threat of our time, but incredible new advancements in science and engineering can allow us to avoid the worst repercussions of global warming as we work to reverse it over time. In Our Livable World, research specialist and author Marc Schaus leads listeners in an exploration of the newest and upcoming innovations in green technology poised to prevent the climate apocalypse - and usher in a sustainable, livable world.

To beat a challenge the size of climate change, our solutions will have to be ambitious: solar energy coatings that can be applied like paint, "smart highways" designed to charge your vehicle as you drive, indoor vertical farms automated to maximize crop growth with no pesticides, bioluminescent vines ready to one day replace our streetlights, jet fuel created from landfill trash - and next-generation carbon-capture techniques to remove the emissions we have already released over the past several decades. Far from the geoengineering schemes of cli-fi action thrillers: real solutions are being developed, right this moment. Our Livable World features interviews with the innovators, real talk on the revolutionary technology, and a clear picture of a cleaner planet in the future.

©2020 Marc Schaus (P)2021 Tantor
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Lots to take in. Found it difficult tonget through

The summary suggests it’s a really positive book and I guess overall the subject matter is. But something about the way it’s written or narrated just seemed to suck all the potential hope out of it.

There’s lots of things talked about. It’s essentially an endless list of technological innovations, but delivered in a way that just wasn’t engaging enough for me.
It also seems to fall short of discussing the big picture. Overall we’re doing too little to hit our global warming targets, so can these innovations be adapted soon enough to mitigate the tipping points? How do you take these concepts out of their local pockets and onto a global stage?

Maybe it gets there at the end, I haven’t finished it because I just got so bored of the narrators voice feeding endless reams of information at me. Maybe it works better as a physical book than an audio book…?

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