“Global Warming: The Problem” by Wilfred Candler was nominated for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award

The US Review of Books recently announced the much-awaited results for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award.

“Global Warming: The Problem” by Wilfred Candler, published by Author Reputation Press, was one of the nominees for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award. It was highly praised by Mihir Shah of the US Review of Books, highlighting that “Candler’s concern for the environment is authentic, and his writing style is fearless. He calls it as it is. Not even sparing President Biden, he meticulously points out that yes, while Biden canceled the Keystone pipeline, a true environmentalist should be mortified that all pipelines were not canceled, leading the author to differentiate between fulfilling campaign promises and true care for environmental conservation. Further, he highlights many reasons to go nuclear, yet the obstinate adherence to fossil fuels can only mean one thing: avarice and greed trump the well-being of the planet.”

Eric Hoffer Book Award honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing, as well as the independent spirit of small publishers. Since its establishment, the Hoffer has become one of the largest international book awards for small, academic, and independent presses.

The US Review of Books supports the Eric Hoffer Project by publishing the results of the annual Eric Hoffer Award for Books. The Eric Hoffer Award is judged by a separate panel, under the direction of the Eric Hoffer Project.

Wilfred Candler wrote the book “Global Warming: The Problem” with the goal of sharing his concern that the problems of climate change are vastly more complicated than we had any idea before. It is no longer a simple problem of using fossil fuels.

Wilfred Candler, Ph.D., has been a Professor of Agricultural Economics at Massey University in New Zealand and Purdue University in the United States; subsequently, he worked briefly for the Canadian Government before joining the World Bank. As an evaluation officer at the World Bank, he spent several decades looking at and evaluating the impact of investment projects worldwide.

This thought-provoking narrative also received commendation from the Hollywood Book Reviews, acknowledging that “The author’s concerned tone is very audible regarding the urgent and integral need for changes economic policies, to manage a feasible crisis of the Earth becoming worse and uninhabitable by human beings, in the future. He has thus shared practical methods which can see Global Warming reduced, such as imposing a heavy tax on fossil fuels, eliminating air travel, and bringing to an end the deployment of military forces overseas. Readers will find his work analytical but essential and timely, and effusive of the phrase- ‘The more we delay, the more we pay.’”

Moreover, The Pacific Book Review also gave its praise to this book, stating that “thoughtful, captivating, and engaging, author Wilfred Candler’s Global Warming: The Problem is a must-read non-fiction book on environmentalism and the impact of humanity on the planet. The shocking reality of the uphill battle we as a species are facing and the dire nature of this book’s findings help to motivate and enlighten those without the knowledge of the direct causes of global warming in the modern day, as well as some of the solutions that would benefit us all as a society moving forward.”

Lastly, “Global Warming: The Problem” was among the books displayed by ARP during the 2023 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books  (LATFOB) at the University of Southern California on April 22–23, 2023.

Click on this link to find out more about the 2024 Eric Hoffer Award results: https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-winners.html.