I’ve got an idea. You know all those free Gideons Bibles in hotel rooms all over the world that nobody reads (how many trees? how many carbon emissions?). Let’s start a new movement. Let’s, one by one, replace them with copies of The Hydrogen Age: Empowering A Clean Energy Future, by Geoffrey Holland and James Provenzano. It’s loaded with stories (and pictures) of one view of salvation. Don’t like hydrogen? Pick the vision/book that you offers your version of redemption.
Julia Whitty is Mother Jones’ environmental correspondent. You can read from her new book, “The Fragile Edge,” and other writings, here.
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