Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era - Softcover

Leggett, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415931029 ISBN 13: 9780415931021

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Review:

"A racy account of a key time for the environmental movement, when the battle between big-time, carbon-belching corporations and adamant greens was at its hottest . . . powerful and highly readable". -- New Scientist

From the Back Cover:

Excessive burning of oil, gas, and coal is raising our planet's thermostat to unacceptable levels -- a problem which has already resulted in increased natural catastrophes: storms, floods, droughts, and fires. Yet big oil companies have repeatedly hijacked efforts to slow global carbon emissions. THE CARBON WAR is a major call-to-arms for the safety of our planet. Throughout the last decade, Jeremy Leggett, a distinguished scientist at Oxford University and former director for Greenpeace, has worked doggedly to alert human kind to the threat of ecological catastrophe. With the grace of a novelist and the precision of a scientist, Leggett recounts his maddening interactions with scientific councils, international governmental meetings, and business leaders. Still, despite the government's backpedaling on eco-promises, the media's laziness, and fossil fuel company rhetoric, the transition to solar energy is coming, he argues. THE CARBON WAR is a riveting read and a critical contribution to the fight for sustainable energy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415931029
• ISBN 13: 9780415931021
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360