SuperFreakonomics

This book is pretty much the same as the first, but with different topics. It's definitely interesting, but lacks the wow factor from the first one. The one section that does stand out is the bit about global warming. They cut down, to the ground, all of our current efforts to combat global warming. In the eyes of a cold-blooded economist, humans don't have the incentive to stop polluting and it's already too late, based on the half-life of CO2 in the atmosphere. Instead they recommend blasting SO2 into the stratosphere to cool the earth. Scary stuff, but the scarier still is that there's nothing to stop Bill Gates from trying!

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