Ron Stein

The global focus on reducing emissions must be ethical instead of supporting environmental degradation. This book reveals the benefits and costs, including economic and environmental costs, of mining for exotic minerals and metals for batteries and tapping into intermittent electricity generated form wind and solar power.

"Precocious yet vulnerable teenager James... has a deep appreciation for the world, but no idea how to live in it. Finding no help from his divorced parents..., nor his twenty-year-old memoir-writing sister ..., James decides to reject the assumptions that govern the adult world, starting with his potential college career. Grappling with his future, his sexuality, and his screwed up family, James embarks on a search for wisdom through nontraditional...