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Terms and conditions applyEnergy Autonomy
Hermann Scheer
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Format: Book
Pages: 310
Publisher: Earthscan
Date Published: Dec 2006
Stock Code: 61057
Binding: Hardback
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For 200 years, industrial civilisation has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels. But continued reliance has had perilous consequences. On one hand, there is the insecurity of relying on the world's most unstable region - the Middle East - compounded by the imminence of peak oil, growing scarcity and mounting prices. On the other, the potentially cataclysmic consequences of continuing to burn fossil fuels, as the evidence of accelerating climate change shows. Yet there is a solution: to make the transition to renewable sources of energy and distributed, decentralised energy generation. It is a model that has been proven, technologically, commercially and politically, as Scheer comprehensively demonstrates here. The alternative of a return to nuclear power - again being widely advocated - he shows to be compromised and illusory. The advantages of renewable energy are so clear and so overwhelming that resistance to them needs diagnosis - which Scheer also provides, showing why and how entrenched interests oppose the transition and what must be done to overcome these obstacles.
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