Climate Change and Renewable Energy: How to End the Climate Crisis

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This book presents a comprehensive overview of the global climate change impacts caused by the continued use of fossil fuels, which results in enormous damage to the global environment, biodiversity, and human health. It argues that the key to a transition to a low carbon future is the rapid and large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies in power generation, transport and industry, coupled with super energy-efficient building design and construction. However, the author also reveals how major oil companies and petrochemical conglomerates have systematically attempted to manufacture doubt and uncertainty about global warming and climate change, continue to block the commercialization of solar energy and wind power, and impede the electrification of the transport sector. Martin Bush’s solution is a theory-of-change approach to substantially reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050, which sets out realistic steps that people can take now to help make a difference. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxii A Planet in Peril (Martin J. Bush)....Pages 1-57 The Overheated Earth (Martin J. Bush)....Pages 59-108 The Carbon Cycle (Martin J. Bush)....Pages 109-141 Carbon Chaos (Martin J. Bush)....Pages 143-212 Coming Clean (Martin J. Bush)....Pages 213-269 Getting Technical (Martin J. Bush)....Pages 271-331 Pricing Down Carbon (Martin J. Bush)....Pages 333-372 Denial and Deception (Martin J. Bush)....Pages 373-420 How to End the Climate Crisis (Martin J. Bush)....Pages 421-475 Back Matter ....Pages 477-525