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The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial by David Lipsky

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kallispell's review

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informative slow-paced

3.0

nicciobert's review against another edition

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informative

4.25

Well-researched and important book that outlines the intricately concerted effort to politicize science, from the determination that asprin contributes to Reye Syndrome to the link between smoking and cancer, to the now existential threat of human-caused climate change. It's frustrating and maddening, but critical for the general populous to know the indisputable links between the people who have made a life's work of casting doubt on science and scientists, at the peril of the planet.

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dark funny informative sad fast-paced

4.75

This book is excellent and very, very upsetting. Science has known, with steadily increasing certainty, what existential danger our rampant consumption of fossil fuels has posed since long before I was born. I'm about to turn 50. Corporations chose greed over a habitable world, profits at the cost of our children's futures, deceit and delay over humanity. It is sickening. I should add that the book is written in a very vivid, colorful style--it was an entertaining book, just in a laugh or cry, gallows humor sort of way.