Before the Wells Run Dry

Ireland's Transition to Renewable Energy

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2003 | 1st
FEASTA, The Foundation For the Economics of Sustainability (Verlag)
978-1-84351-037-6 (ISBN)

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The world is using oil at four times the rate it is finding it, and the output of many existing fields is beginning to decline. Whenever it occurs, the decline in oil and gas output will be a turning point in human history since the use of increasing amounts of fossil energy has been the basis of globalisation and rapid economic growth. The thirty energy experts who contribute to this book discuss when the turning point will actually occur and whether other energy sources can be developed in time to avert the looming energy shortage. They discuss a number of questions:

Richard Douthwaite is an economist and writer with a special interest in climate and energy issues and in local economic development. His best-known book, The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet explores the effects that the pursuit of growth has had on the environment and society. He is a co-founder of Feasta, the Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability, the Dublin-based international network of people who believe that the world's sustainability problems are due to the use of dysfunctional systems and are trying to develop better ones. His current projects include the design and introduction of novel financing arrangements for community energy projects and the management of the Carbon Cycles and Sinks Network which explores ways in which land-based greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced. He lives in Westport, Co. Mayo.

What about coal? There's plenty in the ground but it is a dirty fuel whose greater use would accelerate global warming.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.10.2003
Zusatzinfo	charts, graphs
Verlagsort	Dublin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	176 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-84351-037-5 / 1843510375
ISBN-13	978-1-84351-037-6 / 9781843510376
Zustand	Neuware