Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air And The Global Energy Crisis
Author: Jeremy Leggett
Format: Paperback, 127mm x 198mm, 313g, 320 pages
Published: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2006
An expose of the oil industry's cover-up of the diminishing oil supply, that paints a bleak picture of the future in which the price of oil skyrockets, economies and communities shudder worldwide, and the globe must move to renewable source to give it power.
Jeremy Leggett began his career as a lecturer in earth sciences at Imperial College, London, where he researched oil source rocks and ancient oceans while consulting for oil corporations. Increasingly concerned about climate change, in 1989 he joined Greenpeace, staying for 7 years, initially as their UK Chief Scientist and later as an international climate campaigner. He is now CEO of Solarcentury the UK's largest independent solar electric company, a member of the UK government's Renewables Advisory Board, and a director of the world's first private-equity investment fund in renewable energy. His first book, The Carbon War, was described as 'the best book yet on the politics of global warming' by the Sunday Times.
Author: Jeremy Leggett
Format: Paperback, 127mm x 198mm, 313g, 320 pages
Published: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2006
An expose of the oil industry's cover-up of the diminishing oil supply, that paints a bleak picture of the future in which the price of oil skyrockets, economies and communities shudder worldwide, and the globe must move to renewable source to give it power.
Jeremy Leggett began his career as a lecturer in earth sciences at Imperial College, London, where he researched oil source rocks and ancient oceans while consulting for oil corporations. Increasingly concerned about climate change, in 1989 he joined Greenpeace, staying for 7 years, initially as their UK Chief Scientist and later as an international climate campaigner. He is now CEO of Solarcentury the UK's largest independent solar electric company, a member of the UK government's Renewables Advisory Board, and a director of the world's first private-equity investment fund in renewable energy. His first book, The Carbon War, was described as 'the best book yet on the politics of global warming' by the Sunday Times.