The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to RenaissanceBy Jeremy Leggett
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The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to RenaissanceBy Jeremy Leggett
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Systemic global risks of oil supply, climate shock and financial collapse threaten tomorrow's economies and mean businesses and policy makers face huge challenges in fuelling tomorrow’s world.
Jeremy Leggett gives a personal testimony of the dangers often ignored and incompletely understood - a journey through the human mind, the institutionalization of denial, and the reasons civilizations fail. It is also an account of tantalizing hope, because mobilizing renewables and redeploying energy funding can soften the crash of modern capitalism and set us on a road to renaissance.
The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to RenaissanceBy Jeremy Leggett
- Published on: 2015-09-29
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
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"[Leggett's] insider perspective on the energy business leaves him ideally placed to narrate with authority the story of an industry hurtling towards crisis ― and the refusal of its leaders to acknowledge it... The Energy of Nations reads like a thriller." - Helen Massy-Beresford, Oxford Today
“A story very well told. As far as I am aware there is no one on this planet who has a comparable all-encompassing, multi-disciplinary view and understanding of these issues to Leggett's.” – Stephan Schmidheiny, founder, World Council for Sustainable Development
“It really is a terrific read - very unveiling of our human struggle between greed and legacy.” – Stephan Dolezalek, Managing Director, Vantage Point Capital Partners.
“I was so captivated by it. The narrative device of running the years and the oil price gives it power and tension. The inter-weaving of account and candid diary makes one feel one has a front-row seat at the places where things almost happen.” – Adam Poole, Analyst, Buro-Happold
“I was hooked within the first few pages.” – Pamela Hartigan, Director, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Said Business School, University of Oxford
“The narrative flows compellingly, filmically, almost like an airport thriller.” – Mark Prain, Executive Director, Hillary Institute of International Leadership
“At a time when most people view tomorrow's energy prospects through dark lenses of coal, oil, fracked gas or even methane hydrates, Jeremy Leggett shines a brilliant light on the path towards low or zero carbon energy. Illuminating. And a joy to read.” – John Elkington, cofounder of ENDS, SustainAbility and Volans.
"Brilliant–a real roadmap to the future. And a perfect reminder of why we must leave most fossil fuel safely in the ground." – Bill McKibben, Founder, 350.org
"Jeremy Leggett is one of great entrepreneurs of the emerging solar era, a man driven by his passion for the environment and for social justice in the developing world to set up a new business (and a new charity) to give expression to those ideas. ‘ The Energy of Nations’ tells it as it needs to be heard, with new – and genuinely sustainable – business models at the heart of today’s transformation going on today in the global economy" – Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director, Forum for the Future
"To understand what is going on you need to be a polymath who has worked at the highest levels on all sides. Jeremy Leggett is that person, and he provides clarity of thinking in a consistently delightful written style." – Paul Dickinson, Chairman, Carbon Disclosure Project.
"Leggett’s The Energy of Nations is the key to the "next big thing" for investors and asset managers worldwide." – Hazel Henderson, Seeking Alpha
"The Energy of Nations is a stimulatingpolemic that paints the ongoing drive to move away from carbon-based fossil fuels as a titanic struggle in which mankind struggles to overcome its darker instincts – greed and denial – in order to ensure the future survival of the human race." – Real Power
"By focusing throughout on risks and opportunities, Leggett avoids the mistakes of those who offer fixed forecasts of almost unavoidable extinction, instead setting out an analysis of global trends and what's driving them. […]Leggett's reserved optimism speaks to the real possibility of a rocky transition to a post-capitalist, post-materialist global society that transcends the crisis-generating dynamics of industrial civilisation as we know it." – Nafeez Ahmed, The Guardian
"A stimulating polemic that paints the ongoing drive to move away from carbon-based fossil fuels" – RenewableUK
About the Author
Jeremy Leggett is a social entrepreneur and author. He has been an Entrepreneur of the Year at the NewEnergy Awards, a CNN Principal Voice, and is founder and chairman of renewable energy company Solarcentury, and SolarAid. He chairs the financial think tank CarbonTracker, contributes to the Guardian and the Financial Times, and is an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Entertaining, Troubling By Daniel L. Davis Jeremy Leggett’s new book is at once delightful and enormously entertaining – yet also troubling. Instead of simply explaining to the reader that there is a problem with the way the modern world produces and uses energy, he gives the reader privileged access into some of the more remarkable forums and stages around the world. Whether its at some of the most prestigious climate and energy forums in Europe, personal audiences with at least four British Prime Ministers, or private conversations with some of the more influential and powerful global energy figures, Leggett shines a light on what many think privately, and then exposes the contradiction in how they sometimes act publicly.Part of the book is optimistic, in that the author (full disclosure: I have been an acquaintance of Jeremy’s for more than a year) discusses advances in many energy-efficiency technologies, and explains that there are a number of men and women around the world who understand the problems the world faces and is trying to do something about it. But as the title indicates, Leggett also exposes the presence of a blindness among many that leaves one discouraged.One of the key analogies of the book centers around the global financial crisis of 2007-08. He explains how there were a few key analysts in the years prior to the collapse who rightly foresaw the coming crisis and tried to warn others of them. Yet there was a blindness among the masses, even among the bankers and workers in the industry. For every person warning of looming trouble, there seemed to be scores who ridiculed them, labeling as “scaremongers” any who dared challenge the notion that the housing and mortgage markets could go anywhere but up. We all know how that turned out.Today there are a similar minority of views that the energy system upon which the world economy relies is unsustainable in its current form. Leggett outlines a very rational and logical, fact-based analysis to explain why. For example, the tight-oil boom in the US has been extraordinary by any measure. Many pundits – actually most pundits – celebrate this new capability as heralding an energy “revolution” that will forever change geopolitics, resulting in an energy-independent America. The facts say differently (at least for those actually willing to examine the comprehensive data). Yet as in the days prior to the banking collapse, any who dare challenge the status quo are similarly derided as “scaremongers.” Yet also like the days ahead of the banking collapse, Leggett’s arguments are based on sound evidence and reason.All the news isn’t bad, however, as he believes a renaissance is possible. Just as in the period after the banking crisis, officials were open to making changes when they weren’t before, so too does Leggett believe similar openings may occur after it becomes evident there is an energy problem. We had better hope he is right. When the banking collapse occurred it hit a great many people hard, but entire segments of the economy and public were shielded to a large degree. When there isn’t enough affordable oil to satisfy global needs and prices rise to unaffordable levels, it will impact the entire society. When the banking crisis was exposed, governments around the world simply printed more money to relieve the problem. When the oil crisis is exposed, no one can ‘print’ new oil.The damage will be more acute, longer lasting, and more difficult to overcome (as virtually all aspects of the modern economy rely not merely on sufficient quantities of oil, but on sufficient quantities of affordable oil). All the more reason to read this book and encourage leaders and officials in this and other countries to begin taking the matter more seriously before the onset of crisis manifests itself and the world enters a crisis-management phase.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Energy of Nations:Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance By Jim M Leggett is a former oil executive, teacher, founder of the successful Solarcentury company, and chair of the influential financial think tank Carbon Tracker. He contributes to the Financial Times, The Guardian, and is a Fellow at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute. His book about energy, climate change and finance is well documented and brilliantly written. How can a science guy be such a good writer too? Over the past five years, I have followed many of the stories Leggett presented but it was fascinating to read about his "first hand" experience in dealing with some of the key characters. This is a great book for anyone interested in learning more about energy, climate change and their related financial risks as well as our opportunities to change course and build a more resilient and sustainable society.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Great narrative and analysis, but.... By Todd Allyn Flach The timeliness of the topics of this book is spot on, the analysis and evidence are compelling, and the narrative is entertaining. I just wanted even more material on how to win the war against "business as usual" and yet another economic bubble threatening to blow us all up.
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