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blynholder's review
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Fantastic historical narrative that follows the people who invented electricity all the way to denying climate change is upon us. Lipsky uses clever anecdotes and fascinating stories to break up the heavy history of climate science.
alexismsw's review against another edition
The second half of the book (the section on climate deniers), the author was trying to follow so many different people and threads, and I would have preferred it went in chronological order. A lot of good content, really important (and enraging), but I couldn’t keep track of it the way it was written.
nicciobert's review against another edition
informative
4.25
Well-researched and important book that outlines the intricately concerted effort to politicize science, from the determination that asprin contributes to Reye Syndrome to the link between smoking and cancer, to the now existential threat of human-caused climate change. It's frustrating and maddening, but critical for the general populous to know the indisputable links between the people who have made a life's work of casting doubt on science and scientists, at the peril of the planet.
encgolsen's review
dark
funny
informative
sad
fast-paced
4.75
This book is excellent and very, very upsetting. Science has known, with steadily increasing certainty, what existential danger our rampant consumption of fossil fuels has posed since long before I was born. I'm about to turn 50. Corporations chose greed over a habitable world, profits at the cost of our children's futures, deceit and delay over humanity. It is sickening. I should add that the book is written in a very vivid, colorful style--it was an entertaining book, just in a laugh or cry, gallows humor sort of way.