Name: After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
ISBN: 9781982111311

After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort

Eric Dean Wilson

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This "ambitious [and] delightful" (The New York Times) work of literary nonfiction 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. "Meticulously researched and engagingly written" (Amitav Ghosh), this "knockout debut" (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.

Book Details

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publish Date: Jul 19th, 2022
Pages: 480
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 1.40in - 0.90lb
EAN: 9781982111311
Categories: • Global Warming & Climate Change• Essays• Anthropology - Cultural & Social

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About the Author

Wilson, Eric Dean: - Eric Dean Wilson's essays, poems, and criticism have appeared in Time, Esquire, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Tin House, among other publications. A graduate of The New School's creative writing MFA program, Wilson is pursuing a PhD in the English program at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where his work focuses on American studies, environmental humanities, and the Black radical tradition. He currently teaches writing at Queens College. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, he now lives in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

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"Ambitious. Powerful. Delightful." - Hope Jahren, The New York Times

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