Jeremy Leggett: 3 books
The Empty Tank
Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Global Financial Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
In The Empty Tank, Jeremy Leggett, an internationally renowned geologist and energy entrepreneur who spent the 1980s working for Big Oil, sounds the alarm about an unprecedented crisis.
The oil topping point–the day half of all the world’s oil is used up–will be reached, by many calculations,...
The Winning of the Carbon War
Power and Politics on the Front Lines of Climate and Clean Energy
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
“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...
The Energy of Nations
Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
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...