Book List - JLF Colorado 2024

Prepare for an exhilarating journey into the world of literature, as JLF Colorado returns with more than 50 incredible speakers. Join us from September 14 to 15 in Boulder, Colorado, to experience the vibrant energy of the Jaipur Literature Festival, famously hailed as "the greatest literary show on Earth." For more information, visit https://jlflitfest.org/colorado. Book list created 7/31/24.

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Book cover for "Big Coal"
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Long dismissed as a relic of a bygone era, coal is back -- with a vengeance. Coal is one of the nation's biggest and most influential industries -- Big Coal provides more than half the electricity consumed by Americans today -- and its dominance is growing, driven by rising oil prices and calls for energy independence. Is coal the solution to America's energy problems? On close examination, the glowing promise of coal quickly turns to ash. Coal mining...
Book cover for "The heat will kill you first"
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The world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. The basic science is not complicated: Stop...
Book cover for "How to cool the planet"
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Right now, a group of scientists is working on ways to minimize the catastrophic impact of global warming. But they're not designing hybrids or fuel cells or wind turbines. They're trying to lower the temperature of the entire planet. And they're doing it with huge contraptions that suck CO2 from the air, machines that brighten clouds and deflect sunlight away from the earth, even artificial volcanoes that spray heat-reflecting particles into the...
Book cover for "Sunnyvale"
Book cover for "The water will come"
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"By century's end, hundreds of millions of people will be retreating from the world's shores as our coasts become inundated and our landscapes transformed. From island nations to the world's major cities, coastal regions will disappear. Engineering projects to hold back the water are bold and may buy some time. Yet despite international efforts and tireless research, there is no permanent solution-no barriers to erect or walls to build-that will protect...