New e-book: 'The Winning of the Carbon War' (Jeremy Leggett)

Humanity is in a race, a kind of civil war. Believers in a safe future fuelled by endless sunlight and related forms of clean energy combat defenders of finite carbon fuels careless of the impact they have on the world by clinging to coal, oil, and gas. Jeremy Leggett fought for the light side for a quarter of a century as it lost battle after battle to the dark side. Then, in 2013, the tide began to turn. By 2015, it was clear the light side could win the war. Leggett’s diary from the front lines tells one person’s story of those turnaround years, and what they can mean for the world.

This first chapter of this book covers the period May 2013 to March 2014. It was published online on 1st March 2015. The remainder will be published as a live written serial, on 1st of every month for the next ten months, through to the final night of the Paris Climate Summit in December 2015, where governments have pledged once and for all, after a quarter century of trying, to put humankind on course to survive climate change. Each episode will republish an edited full version, incorporating suggested changes and corrections (hopefully minimal) of the previous version. From May, the narrative will be up to date. The final version will then be published as a print book in 2016.

http://www.jeremyleggett.net