BIBFRAME Work

Title

After cooling

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Wilson, Eric Dean (author )

Subject

• Global warming (LCSH)
• Air conditioning--Environmental aspects (LCSH)
• Chlorofluorocarbons--Environmental aspects (FAST)
• global warming (AAT)
• Global warming (FAST)
• Ozone layer depletion (FAST)
• Couche d'ozone--Réduction (RVM)
• Climatisation--Aspect de l'environnement (RVM)
• Chlorofluorocarbons--Environmental aspects (LCSH)
• Chlorofluorocarbones--Aspect de l'environnement (RVM)
• Refrigerants--Environmental aspects (LCSH)
• Réchauffement de la Terre (RVM)
• Fluides frigorigènes--Aspect de l'environnement (RVM)
• Ozone layer depletion (LCSH)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 363.738/75
• LCC: TD887.C47 W55 2022 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"Interweaves the science and history of the powerful refrigerant (and dangerous greenhouse gas) Freon with a haunting meditation on how to live meaningfully and morally in a rapidly heating world. In After Cooling, Eric Dean Wilson braids together air-conditioning history, climate science, road trips, and philosophy to tell the story of the birth, life, and afterlife of Freon, the refrigerant that ripped a hole larger than the continental United States in the ozone layer. As he traces the refrigerant's life span from its invention in the 1920s--when it was hailed as a miracle of scientific progress--to efforts in the 1980s to ban the chemical (and the resulting political backlash), Wilson finds himself on a journey through the American heartland, trailing a man who buys up old tanks of Freon stockpiled in attics and basements to destroy what remains of the chemical before it can do further harm. Wilson is at heart an essayist, looking far and wide to tease out what particular forces in American culture--in capitalism, in systemic racism, in our values--combined to lead us into the Freon crisis and then out. It's a story that offers a rare glimpse of environmental hope, suggesting that maybe the vast and terrifying problem of global warming is not beyond our grasp to face."-- Provided by publisher

Authorized Access Point

Wilson, Eric Dean. After cooling

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:21:50.025346+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23965724

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• Date: 2026-09-11
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• Description language: eng
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