Jeremy Leggett

The Energy of Nations

Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance

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Produktbeschreibung

Systemic global risks of oil supply, climate shock and financial collapse threaten tomorrow's economies and mean businesses and policy makers face huge challenges in fuelling tomorrow's world. Jeremy Leggett gives a personal testimony of the dangers often ignored and incompletely understood - a journey through the human mind, the institutionalization of denial, and the reasons civilizations fail. It is also an account of tantalizing hope, because mobilizing renewables and redeploying energy funding can soften the crash of modern capitalism and set us on a road to renaissance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780415857826
• ISBN-10: 0415857821
• Artikelnr.: 37254017

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Leggett is a social entrepreneur and author. He has been an Entrepreneur of the Year at the NewEnergy Awards, a CNN Principal Voice, and is founder and chairman of renewable energy company Solarcentury, and SolarAid. He chairs the financial think tank CarbonTracker, contributes to the Guardian and the Financial Times, and is an Associate Fellow at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

About the author Publisher's note about the author's credentials and
motivations Acknowledgements Note on sources and style Prologue PART 1: A
HISTORY 1. Lies, scaremongering, and affordable oil 2. Under the volcano 3.
Doomed to failure 4. Not our responsibility 5. The risk of contingency 6.
The small print 7. When the dancing stops 8. This House Believes 9. They
will blame us forever 10. As bad as the credit crunch 11. You are the flip
side of austerity 12. Houston, it's just possible we have a problem 13. The
anti Oil Shock Response Plan plan 14. A bollocks subject 15. To the point
of being suicidal 16. A new era of fossil fuels 17. More unhinged by the
week PART 2: A FUTURE 18. What next: the anatomy of the biggest crash 19.
The power of context: energy and security 20. The choice of roads: people
and systems Notes and references