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020			_a1982111291
020			_a9781982111298
035			_a(OCoLC)1257968213 _z(OCoLC)1201300495
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100	1		_aWilson, Eric Dean,
245	1	0	_aAfter cooling : _bon Freon, global warming, and the terrible cost of comfort / _cEric Dean Wilson.
250			_aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021.
300			_aix, 465 pages ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 413-451) and index.
505	0		_aPrelude: this business of destruction -- Before freon: on the trouble with personal comfort -- The business of destruction (tropopause) -- The age of freon: on the continuous uncertainty of safety -- The business of destruction (stratopause) -- After freon: on the myth of the closed system -- The business of destruction (mesopause) -- Postlude: what we're after.
520			_a"Interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world. 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 refrigerant's life span from its invention in the 1920s--when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress--to 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 culture--in capitalism, in systemic racism, in our values--combined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. It's a story that 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."-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAir conditioning _xEnvironmental aspects.
650		0	_aChlorofluorocarbons _xEnvironmental aspects.
650		0	_aFluorocarbons _xEnvironmental aspects.
650		0	_aGlobal warming.
650		0	_aOzone layer depletion.
650		0	_aRefrigerants _xEnvironmental aspects.
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