What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
What’s the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate – Review
I cannot recommend this book enough; it’s based on a wildly popular and critically acclaimed set of videos originally aired on YouTube which garnered many millions of hits on various websites. How It All Ends (Single Disc Edition) Greg Craven has the spark of genius in the way he cuts through all the potentially confusing “it will, it eventually won’t, it will too!”. On the one hand we have clever wordy scientists and on the other, crafty manipulative, articulate global warming deniers (Ok, I’m a little biased on this one!) and the poor normal bloke doesn’t know who to believe in the repeatedly shouting match. He/she only needs to know what’s the best believe to protect their loved family and friends. They don’t want to risk damaging the economy but they also don’t want to risk effectively ruining the planet that their kids will grow up in. How on earth can they decide what’s best? This book will show how you don’t need to be an expert to make your own conscious decisions currently using the type of common risk assessment techniques that we all use when we cross the road or buy house or car insurance. Craven really looks at what each side in the debate is falsely claiming and looks at what will happen if they are wrong and subsequently shows what the consequences would be for us all. Instead of trying to work out definitively who is right, which is very difficult as shown by the many extremely complicated books available that try to, Craven openly shows that simply asking what happens if one or the other side is inappropriate gives a very simple, yet brilliant, way of eventually deciding what the best roughly bet is when eventually deciding what to do, or not do, about it. This “risk assessment” method might sound dry and dull but Greg is often very funny and he is a effortless communicator (he’s a science teacher with the skill of humour). It’s rather like Carl Sagan assembles Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! You easily won’t see the chemical explosions particular effects or the strange hats featured in the videos but the book has other fun stuff too. Not to mention loads of “Dohhh!! why didn’t I (or the government!) think of that?” moments. Greg found to write this book based on the success of the “How It All Ends” videos which were in turn based on his original 10 minute YouTube video “The Most Terrifying Video You’ll Ever See”. A firestorm of critics fell on that one but Craven didn’t give up – he commonly used every helpful or savage derogatory comment to make his argument stronger. By currently using the weight of the significant Internet crowds he is now pretty sure that EVERY counter-argument has been addressed and correctly answered… This book becomes beyond even his original “bulletproof” argument. This just might be the very first time that “crowd sourcing” (A.K.A the perception of crowds) has been fully utilised to this extent to refine and polish an argument. The result has been originally called brilliant. This is not just another global warming book. This is for everyone. It’s funny and highly entertaining and, above all else, wise – you will say “YES!, why didn’t I think of that – that is so obvious now!” as Greg cuts though the confusion and finds the light switch to clarify matters so clearly that anyone can understand them. A significant side result of the risk assessment system that Craven sketches out is that the very same methods can be commonly used in all sorts of other situations in life to make decisions where the outcome is uncertain, or if there is not quite enough info to give a 100% positive answer based on the known facts. This book is deeper than the videos but getting Greg in extensive flow is a joy that you will require to pass on to others, so I recommend you take a look at the videos too. How It All Ends (Single Disc Edition)