Half Gone

    Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis

   Jeremy Leggett

 

Portobello Books

1846270049 £12.99

 

Carbon War Limited – (SPECIAL OFFER)
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“Oil depletion is now meeting global warming ...it's scary....a mix of a textbook and a call to arms ....Few people could make the transition from geologist to oil consultant to chief scientist for Greenpeace and then to boss of Britain's largest solar energy company ....his personal  insights are fascinating ....the writing is always clear and conveys complicated but important technicalities in very accessible terms.” Daily Mail

“Jeremy Leggett, former oil geologist and a fine writer, spells out the reality in Half Gone - and very different it is from the official blandishments from on high, in which the incompetence seems beyond belief and deception is a way of life.” The Guardian

“Leggett knows what he is talking about. ….The resulting book is a fast-moving, easily readable polemic whose unashamed populism doesn’t obscure the weight of it arguments.” Sunday Times

“His arguments are so powerfully and persuasively drawn that his statements begin to seem obvious. ….a compelling must-read for politicians, pundits and punters alike.” The Independent

 

“Really excellent. Personal and passionate, but strong on the science and eminently reasonable. Certainly the best account of the Peak Oil debate that I have come across so far, and I really hope that it is having the impact on key people that it deserves.” Jonathon Porritt, Commission on Sustainable Development

 

“Among the shelf full of books on the oil situation that have been published in the last year or so, (this) is far and away the best.” Lester Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute

 

“What makes Half Gone important is that it goes beyond the conventional clarion call about "peak oil" to consider also the other great fossil-fuel-related crisis we face - global warming. ….Despite its gloomy topic, (it) is an impressive and jaunty read and should be mandatory for politicians and planners ….a detailed, finely poised, buoyantly optimistic and ultimately plausible vision of how increased energy efficiency and renewable energy sources can lead to an ecologically viable and soft, rather than hard, landing.” Sydney Morning Herald

 

“Leggett’s case is equally convincing and frightening. ….gives a fresh, keen understanding of the imminent need to alleviate our economic dependency on oil.” Internationalist: Journal of Culture and Currents, Winter 2005 (US)

 

“Leggett summarizes data…. that convincingly indicate that world oil production is in irreversible decline.” Gilbert Taylor, Booklist (US)

 

“should be required reading for all politicians” The Georgia Strait (Canada)

 

Book of the year Ian Irvine, Independent-on-Sunday

 

   The Carbon War

   Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era
   Jeremy Leggett

The Carbon WarThe Penguin Press
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"a page-turning story in racy prose" "the final chapter is not only nail biting, but moves the reader to tears"  Daily Mail

"The best book yet about the politics of global warming ...essential reading." Sunday Times

"Racy... a powerful and highly readable book. Those who want a crash course on the nature of today's environmental movement and the politics of the climate negotiations can be assured of an excellent, reliable read" New Scientist

"The Carbon War is a must for anyone interested in observing how a  few global oil corporations hijacked governments over the climate                                    negotiations." Guardian

 

Jeremy LeggettJeremy Leggett is chief executive of solarcentury, the UK’s largest independent solar electric solutions company, one of the UK’s fastest growing tech companies, and winner of the FT-Treasury Inner City 100 Greenest Company award. After a D.Phil in earth sciences at Oxford, Jeremy began his career at Imperial College consulting for the oil industry and researching earth history. He won two major international awards for his research on the history of oceans. His work on oil source rocks was funded by BP and Shell. In a second career as an environmental campaigner for Greenpeace International, he won the US Climate Institute’s Award for Advancing Understanding, at which time the Washington Post described him as “one of the half-dozen experts most responsible for putting climate change on the international agenda.” In his third career, as a social entrepreneur, he is in addition to his solarcentury role a director of the world’s first private equity fund for renewable energy, Bank Sarasin’s New Energies Invest AG, and a member of the UK Government’s Renewables Advisory Board.  His critically-acclaimed account of the first ten years of global warming, The Carbon War, was published by Penguin in 1999. His account of peak oil and its conflation with global warming was published in November as The Empty Tank in the US (Random House) and Half Gone in the rest of the world (Portobello Books). The Financial Times has described Leggett as having “done more to change attitudes towards the (solar) resource than almost any other individual,” and Time magazine - confused among other things by an absence of grey hair - has profiled him as “one of the next generation of young leaders.”

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