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(More customer reviews)A fellow car enthusiast sent me The Crooked Mile as a gift, and so I had to read it. This was a good gift, worth the reading. While the ideas are developed based on cars, fossil fuel and climate weirdness, The Crooked Mile is a very readable introduction to the much bigger problem of how we (globally) move to a sustainable future.
It offers one of the best assessments of the challenges we face in replacing fossil fuels as our cheap energy supply. Kevin Clemens clearly introduces the idea that we need a multiplicity of solutions - both for energy sources and for transportation.
As a student of sustainable practices, I find that this is easily the most readable, and least preachy, book I've read to date. While focused on the car and transportation, most the the major issues are raised in the context of why the car poses a problem.
As a nitpicker, I'll note that there are a few bloopers - Double check numbers before you cite them. A minor negative in an otherwise very good exposition of the the issues.
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Americans love their automobiles. More than a mode of transportation, cars provide us with freedom, social equality, and entertainment. The price we pay for our infatuation with four wheels is high. Air pollution, global climate change, energy insecurity, injury and death, and urban sprawl are fair charges against the automobile. Some critics suggest we abandon the automobile. This is not likely.In The Crooked Mile, award-winning journalist and author, Kevin Clemens, examines the past, present, and future of energy and infrastructure to take us through the challenges of depleting oil, global climate change, innovative automotive technologies, and new concepts in personal mobility to reach a better transportation future.
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