The Blueprint
Averting Global Collapse, Condensed Version
by Daniel Rirdan
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Pub Date Sep 26 2013 | Archive Date Apr 07 2014
Description
This is a condensed version of a book with the same title. This version is less technical and sticking to the essentials. We are faced with an impending calamity that threatens to bankrupt the planetary ecosystem and with it much of the manmade world. In this book, Rirdan submits a plan that truly goes the distance: a highly detailed, planetary-wide blueprint that lays out a new course for our technological and industrial engines. It calls for sweeping adjustments in the way every person thinks and lives. Rirdan takes existing key stressors—from climate change to land degradation to fossil fuel shortages—that are afflicting the planet, and offers solutions that put its survival at the center. The plan is grounded in over five hundred peer-reviewed articles, communication with scores of other top experts, advanced computations, and simulations. Rirdan offers immediately employable designs that lay down new paths for our economy, technology, industry, and politics. The plan includes renewables that in tandem can provide 24/7 power for the entire electrical grid; a radically altered economy, based on regenerative management of existing resources; and the use of rotational, intensive grazing of livestock as part of the effort to rewild nature. Furthermore, the book illustrates why a carbon neutral economy is inadequate at this late stage and introduces a practical plan to capture hundreds of billions of tons of carbon from the air over the span of a few decades. The author writes clearly and comprehensively, carefully exploring the logistics and infrastructure changes required in moving forward. The Blueprint is a call to arms, an argument for remaking the world and reclaiming the future for our children.
A Note From the Publisher
available through Ingram | Also available in Hardcover | ISBN 9780984962044 | $27.95
Advance Praise
[review for the standard edition] From Publishers Weekly
*Starred
Review*
"His impassioned writing will engage both the layman and
the expert, and his meticulously drafted blueprint merits the attention of
anyone concerned about the future." --This text refers to the Hardcover
edition.
From Kirkus Reviews
“Rirdan’s prescriptive nonfiction debut provides suggestions to ensure the planet’s continued environmental health. The author sets forth his plan for salvation, ambitiously addressing every major threat to the environment: climate change, deforestation, overfishing, wetlands drainage and excess consumption. His scope is broader than most environmentalist writers, including Al Gore in his seminal book on climate change....Rirdan’s thorough, readable treatment of the questions society must confront makes this book an essential addition to any environmentalist’s reading list.”
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780984962051 |
PRICE | $19.95 (USD) |