I told my friends that Superfreakonomics is much better than its predecessor Freakonomics. That was before I reached the last chapter.
Okay, I will still say that it's good, but you can just cross out that last chap. It's such a disaster that it spoilt every good impression about the book.
In other chaps, the authors discussed about economics/sociology/psychology aspects, which are pretty much close to their field. But trying to explain global climate??? Science is really not their strength, not at all.
At some first lines, I thought it would be interesting. But the more I read, the more I grew alarmed. It's obviously biased, and it goes against almost everything I know about global warming. Try googling it, you can find how scientists (real scientists, not economists-trying-to-be-scientists) react to that chapter. Well, understandable. Even I (a non-scientist reader) gave up believing the book when it said that trees and solar panels will warm the earth and hence will be BAD for global warming. Huh?!
Had a particularly hard time finishing that last part. Talk about being patient!
No comments:
Post a Comment