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100 1  Wilson, Eric Dean,|eauthor. 
245 10 After cooling :|bon Freon, global warming, and the 
       terrible cost of comfort /|cEric Dean Wilson. 
250    First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c[2021]. 
264  4 |c©2021 
300    ix, 465 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-451) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tPrelude : this business of destruction --|tBefore freon 
       : on the trouble with personal comfort --|tThe business of
       destruction (tropopause) --|tThe age of freon : on the 
       continuous uncertainty of safety --|tThe business of 
       destruction (stratopause) --|tAfter freon : on the myth of
       the closed system --|tThe business of destruction 
       (mesopause) --|tPostlude : what we're after. 
520    "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. It's a story that 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." --|cProvided by publisher 
650  0 Chlorofluorocarbons|xEnvironmental aspects. 
650  0 Fluorocarbons|xEnvironmental aspects. 
650  0 Refrigerants|xEnvironmental aspects. 
650  0 Air conditioning|xEnvironmental aspects. 
650  0 Ozone layer depletion. 
650  0 Global warming. 
655  7 Nonfiction.|2local