Book Description: For 200 years industrial civilization has
relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels. But
continued reliance has had perilous consequences. On the 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, decentralized
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, show