John Mickey

Buck and Petal Chill the Anthropocene John Mickey

Fix global warming in ninety days? Kick fossil fuel? Sounds like a fantasy. Not for Buck and Petal. For them it's do-or-die. Disaster guy Buck Planck and columnist Petal Steele are on a mission they can't refuse. Undo millennia of environmental abuse. Pull that extra CO2 out of the air. Cool down a feverish planet. Crank up a clean source of energy. Put an end to coal and oil. And usher in a new era of economic prosperity. In this epic eco-thriller, Buck and Petal race in breakneck pursuit of modern man's Holy Grail, analyzing every source of alternative energy-nuclear, geothermal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, bio-mass, and more-ultimately realizing that it is not technology that would block their goal, but politics and the limits of human cooperation. And in the end, they end up in the middle of the Pacific, poised to push the button on a plan that will either rescue the fragile biosphere or drive a stake through its dying heart.