1st Edition

The Energy Imperative 100 Percent Renewable Now

By Hermann Scheer Copyright 2011
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

For decades, Hermann Scheer was one of the world's leading proponents of renewable energy. In this, his last book before his death in 2010, he lays out his vision for a planet 100% powered by renewables and examines the fundamental ethical and economic imperatives for such a shift. And most importantly, he demonstrates why the time for this transition is now. In Scheer's view, talk of "bridging... Read more

Introduction Energy Change: The Ultimate Challenge  Part 1: Taking Stock  1. No Alternative to Renewable Energy: The Long Suppressed Physical Imperative  2. Methods and Psychology of Slowing Down: Paralysis, Delays and (Un)willing Alliances  3. Super Grids as Pseudo-progressive Brakes: DESERTEC and the North Sea Project, the New Megalomania  Part 2: People, Scope for Creativity, and Technologies for 100 Percent Renewable Energy  4. Speeding Up: The Free Development of Renewable Energy instead of Technocratic Planning  5. Productive Fantasy: The Economic Imperative of Energy Change  6. "Agenda 21" Reloaded: Global Federal Initiatives for Energy Change  7. A Value Decision: Social Ethics instead of Energy Economism

Biography

Hermann Scheer is a Social Democrat member of the German Bundestag (Parliament), President of Eurosolar (The European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy.