Product Description

An account of how the global economy can and must replace its dependence on fossil fuels with solar and renewable energy - and the enormous and multiple benefits which will follow. The author explodes the myth that fossil fuel is "cheaper" and maps the road towards renewable energy that will create a genuinely sustainable global economy - and the only secure prospects for future prosperity that can be shared worldwide. Scheer's book offers an alternative programme to what he believes is the fruitless and doomed process of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change and international negotations to reach a consensus with the existing fossil-fuel lobby.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1057125 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-05
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 347 pages

Review
"Lively, passionate, and well informed" -- Future Survey"This book is of the greatest importance for the future of mankind."-- G]nther Grass, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature"A masterwork by the master advocate for solar." -- Jeremy Leggett, author of 'The Carbon War' This is the most powerfully written book on the energy situation that this reviewer has ever read...[Scheer] is most convincing when discussing the supranational conferences and conventions, which, though sounding as if real progress were being made, are really toothless and even counterproductive when confronted with the economic power of the fossil fuel consortia. Highly recommended. All levels of readers. -- Choice

GÜNTHER GRASS, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
‘This book is of the greatest importance for the future of mankind’

GÜNTHER GRASS, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Shows how political, economic and technological challenges can be met using indigenous, renewable and universally available resources.

Customer Reviews

A solar future, the only future.
A fascinating book about not only how we can power our societies using 100% renewable energies,but why we must.This book is incredibly well thought out and researched,it's heavy going at times because of such in- depth analysis,but very thought provoking none the less.The book describes the absolute impossibility of a sustainable future based on fossil fuels(the inevitable decay of "fossil city").In our future where resource wars are almost unavoidable,this book shines as a beacon of hope,progress and plain scientific commen sense.A book that one hopes our leaders and politicians will read,but you always doubt they will!Hermann Scheer is a German member of parliament and with his kind of vision its not hard to see why Germany is streets ahead when it comes to renewable technologies.Highly recommended!Gordan take note!