March 2006: Review of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
Here are three reviews of talks at the AAPT meeting in Sacramento in August 2004, from the "Teacher's Clearinghouse Newsletter for Science and Society Education", edited by John Roeder. They are by William Halsey and John Perkins of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on energy issues, Carol Stoker of the NASA Ames Research Center on the search for life on Mars, and Sidney Drell of Stanford University on weapons proliferation.
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For the spring 2005 Newsletter John has written reviews of three energy policy reports. One by the National Energy Policy Group of the Bush-Cheney administration, and two that are critical of present government policy. The first of these is by the National Commission on Energy Policy, and the other by the National Resources Defense Council.
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He has also written two further reviews of energy policy documents. One of these is by Martin Hoffert and a group of his colleagues, published in Science, 298, 981-987, Nov. 1 2002. The other was also published in Science, in November 2003, under the general title "The State of the Planet."
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Here is John Roeder's review of the two books, "The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World" by Paul Roberts, and "The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth" by Jeremy Rifkin.