Our Choice: How We Can Solve the Climate Crisis

Our Choice, or Gore's Mandate?

Last week, this book was given to our 8-year old daughter, who is very interested in science: especially geology and meteorology. Our 10-year old son also read it.

When our daughter began scoffing at this book within 2 minutes into it (she asked us if this was supposed to be a "textbook or a fiction book") and asking to use the computer to access various scientific websites in order to verify her own knowledge... we figured there was something missing in this book.

It wasn't long before we realized that Ex-Vice President Gore had absolutely rewritten and retooled much of what science has proven, with some hoodoo kind of patented, untested "new" science- all in order to sell a book. Then, he sprinkled in some pretty scary warnings which implied that the reader's parents caused all the problems. WTH?

Don't waste your money.

This is an utter "Doom & Gloom" fairy tale, albeit a depressing one, for a kid to read! If your children have a private school education, are home-schooled, or at least have an excellent public school education, they will see this tripe for what it is.

And they will NOT respect you for making them read this!

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Question for reviewer Cathian

I don't mind a difference of opinion, but I would like one based on facts, especially with a subject so important to our children.

Can you cite one of the science facts your daughter found to be false and where she got that information?

Our choice or our mandate?

This turned out to be a list of the technologies that may help the world in its quest to become carbon free. Not a great deal of discussion of the details of implementation or pitfalls or the fact that most of these are currently uneconomic and thus will not be a choice but more likely a government mandate. Some of the facts were interesting, but on research, wrong. The claim that there is only one company, in Japan, that can produce the castings for nuclear reactors, is incorrect and therefore understates the nuclear capacity that can be added, if anyone would want to. This is a great primer for the non-technical reader who wants to know how the world could look without fossil fuels, but it lacks the balance and inspiration of Gore's earlier books. Gore is at his best when he is calling people to action. This book doesn't do that and may lead some to conclude that Gore is a bore.

We must teach our children about global warming

As an educator this is a great book to help lead a discussion about global warming with children. It is perfect for the classroom as well as for families. It is difficult to understand why people would not want to encourage taking care of the planet where we live. Sure we could sit by and not teach our children and not do anything, but how many generations of people will be able to do that?

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