Not sure if this is the stronger of Volmann's 2 Carbon Ideologies books, but I found No Good Alternative an easier read than No Immediate Danger. Volmann's self flagellating & male-gazing asides were less common & less jarring; perhaps I just got used to them? Full of interesting interviews & has many tidbits of information about worldwide energy use and generation. Does a good job of showing how thoroughly the coal industry has poisoned West Virginia's water while also drawing parallels with uninhabitable radioactive zones around the Fukushima Daiichi disaster site. Discusses the extreme contempt of oil, gas, & coal extractors for anything but their profits, and the the US's extreme lack of regulation of these industries. Still gives capitalism too much of a pass, conflating the nature of capitalism with the nature of humans, leading to the flawed conclusion that it would be easier to lower the population and reproduction than it would be to lower consumption. I would have thought Volmann would recognize telling people to have less sex would be harder than telling them to have less stuff. In the end, Volmann is still a carbon ideologue, unable see any alternative to capitalism, despite deploying examples from such alternative formulators as Ursula K Leguin. Perhaps the problem was that he never spoke to anyone presenting a real alternative to capitalism. He spoke to Solar experts, but they were still speaking in terms of simply meeting energy demand as it exists now, as if ordained by laws of nature. All in all a good read though. Good for book clubs, pandemics, etc.