ABSTRACT

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 - a journey through the human mind, the institutionalization of denial, and the reasons civilizations fail. It is also an account of tantalizing hope, because mobilizing renewables and redeploying energy funding can soften the crash of modern capitalism and set us on a road to renaissance.

 

part |193 pages

A history

chapter |10 pages

Lies, scaremongering and affordable oil

chapter |10 pages

Under the volcano

chapter |9 pages

Doomed to failure

chapter |7 pages

We are not responsible

chapter |9 pages

The risk of contingency

chapter |8 pages

The small print

chapter |12 pages

When the dancing stops

chapter |8 pages

This house believes

chapter |13 pages

We will be blamed forever

chapter |11 pages

As bad as the credit crunch

chapter |15 pages

You are the flip side of austerity

chapter |11 pages

The anti-Oil Shock Response Plan plan

chapter |12 pages

A ‘bollocks' subject

chapter |14 pages

To the point of being suicidal

chapter |12 pages

A new era of fossil fuels

chapter |20 pages

More unhinged by the week

part |35 pages

A future

chapter |9 pages

What next?

The anatomy of the biggest crash

chapter |10 pages

The power of context

Energy and security

chapter |14 pages

The choice of roads

People and systems