Overview
In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. As he traces the refrigerantās life span from its invention in the 1920sāwhen it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progressāto efforts in the 1980s to ban the chemical (and the resulting political backlash), Wilson finds himself on a journey through the American heartland, trailing a man who buys up old tanks of Freon stockpiled in attics and basements to destroy what remains of the chemical before it can do further harm.
Wilson is at heart an essayist, looking far and wide to tease out what particular forces in American cultureāin capitalism, in systemic racism, in our valuesācombined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. āMeticulously researched and engagingly writtenā (Amitav Ghosh), this āknockout debutā (New York Journal of Books) offers a rare glimpse of environmental hope, suggesting that maybe the vast and terrifying problem of global warming is not beyond our grasp to face.
This book title, After Cooling (On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort) - 9781982111311, ISBN: 9781982111311, by Eric Dean Wilson, published by Simon & Schuster (July 19, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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