num_pages: 368
description: [Browns] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.Katherine Salant Washington Post As fossil fuel prices rise oil insecurity deepens and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal a new energy economy is emerging. Wind solar and geothermal energy are replacing oil coal and natural gas at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution we have begun investing in energy sources that can last forever. Plan B 4.0 explores both the nature of this transition to a new energy economy and how it will affect our daily lives.
language: English
title: Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company