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The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and Politics in Climate Change & Clean Energy Battles - Essential Reading for Environmental Activists & Policy Makers
The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and Politics in Climate Change & Clean Energy Battles - Essential Reading for Environmental Activists & Policy Makers
The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and Politics in Climate Change & Clean Energy Battles - Essential Reading for Environmental Activists & Policy Makers

The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and Politics in Climate Change & Clean Energy Battles - Essential Reading for Environmental Activists & Policy Makers" (注:原书名为中文翻译作品,故保持原标题核心内容,添加了SEO关键词"climate change", "clean energy"和环境受众群体,符合Google SEO规范)

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“A brilliant page turner, alternately daringly funny, coldly sobering, starkly terrifying – poetic, personal, beautiful and intensely urgent." Josh Fox, Emmy-winning film director“Great fun to read; kind, tough, and often very funny.” Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics“We can rely on Jeremy Leggett to provide an interesting and insightful perspective.” Richard Branson, Virgin Group“A vital message that deserves as wide an audience as possible.” Mark Lewis, Barclays“Entertaining, informative and almost impossible to put down.” Nicci Talbot, Huffington PostHumanity is in a race, a kind of civil war.On the light side, the believers in a sustainable future based on clean energy fight to save us from climate change. The dark side defends the continuing use of fossil fuels, often careless of the impact it has on the world.Jeremy Leggett fought for the light side for a quarter of a century as it lost battle after battle. Then, in 2013, the tide began to turn. By 2015, it was clear the war could be won.Leggett’s front-line chronicle tells one person’s story of those turnaround years, culminating in dramatic scenes at the Paris climate summit, and what they can mean for the world.In this updated edition, an extra chapter summarises the events of 2016 and 2017 as they appear from the vantage point of another climate summit in Paris on the second anniversary of the original.

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This book centers the 2015 climate negotiations that ended in the 2016 Paris Agreement. Leggett has a long history as a climate activist, and he has some real insights into what went into this agreement. But the book covers so much more, and because it is so insightful, it is worth reading despite the fact that the events took place nearly ten years ago. I learned a lot. For example, I knew that fracking was bad for the environment, but I didn’t know how seriously bad it is until I read Leggett’s descriptions. The depth and width of corruption and deceit in the fossil fuel industry is covered in depth in this book. Most important of all, we learn just how seriously in trouble the fossil fuel industry is in financially, a fact the fossil fuel executives try to keep hidden. The financial failings of the fossil fuel industry and the global move to sustainable energy is why Leggett thinks that we are winning the carbon war. Even he will say, though, that we don’t know yet if it’s too late or if we are winning the carbon war in time to rescue ourselves from the climate crisis.
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