What is to be done about carbon emissions? The problem is often presented as intractable 鈥� not least by those corporations that want to ring the last cent of return from their investments before anything is done. The Solar Economy (Earthscan, 拢13.99) presents a solution. It comes emblazoned with a quote from 快猫短视频鈥檚 review of the hardback edition: 鈥淚nspirational鈥� Sheer鈥檚 is a heady, utopian vision. Here comes the sun.鈥�
Hermann Scheer, a Social Democrat in Germany鈥檚 Federal Parliament who before that was a member of the team at the (then) Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Centre, would argue with that 鈥渦topian鈥�. He aims to set out a practical social and economic case for radical energy decentralisation. This would be helped, of course, by changes in geopolitics 鈥� for instance, ending the massive subsidies given to 鈥渇ree trade鈥� by tax-free aviation and shipping fuel.