Simple Solutions

Simple Solutions: For Planet Earth is a scientific book written in a popular style for the average reader. You have read about Peak Oil and Global Climate Warming, and complained about $4/gallon gasoline, but how really serious are these headlines and annoyances? The author has worked his entire career on: the science, technology, education, administration and politics of these subjects, and crystallizes this complex field into understandable elements, providing simple solutions for humanity.

Does it make sense for the renewable energy budget of the Federal Government to be about $1 billion/year when:

o Annual tax incentives and government programs for the oil industry are supposedly in the range between $38 billion and $115 billion, although Lester Brown says $210 billion in 2005.

o Farm subsidies alone in 2004 cost taxpayers $16.2 billion.

o Our country spends $12 billion a month, or $144 billion/year, on the and wars, ostensibly to protect oil, only to raise prices.