Pat Roy Mooney Bücher

3, 2, 1 und rummms! Die Heilsversprechen sind verführerisch. Mit technologischen Wunderwaffen will eine Allianz aus Wissenschaftlern, Regierungen und High-Tech-Konzernen den Klimawandel stoppen, Hunger und Terror aus der Welt schaffen. Geo-Engineering, Nanotechnologie oder „konvergierende Technologien“ heißen die Zauberbesen, mit denen die Probleme der Menschheit ausgekehrt werden sollen. Doch wollen wir im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel wirklich Ozeane gegen die Erderwärmung düngen? Warum der Einsatz unkalkulierbarer Technologien der falsche Weg ist, schildert der Technologie-Experte und Träger des Alternativen Nobelpreises Pat Mooney pointiert und bildreich in seinem Buch "Next Bang.

Among the rich cast of characters he meets during his year of exploration is Virgile, a young local wine-maker who offers to initiate Patrick into the mysteries of each season's work in the fields and in the cellar. Virgile is passionately committed to perfection, though he operates on a shoestring. At the other extreme is Manu, Patrick's dipsomaniac neighbour, a diehard traditionalist producing a private wine-lake of unspeakable rouge. With Manu as his self-appointed guide, Patrick embarks on a tour of the region's wine makers -- a succession of lively encounters with growers as varied as the wines themselves. Interwoven are digressions into the history of the region and its wine-making, from the earliest plantings by the Greeks and Romans. Meanwhile, the author struggles to deal with his dilapidated inheritance -- an unfamiliar and unpredictable world where the brambles have grown as tall as the olive trees, the water supply has just dried up and there is a ferocious animal under the roof tiles.