HALF GONE ：OIL, GAS, HOT AIR AND THE GLOBAL ENERGY CRISIS

Book ID/图书代码： 00970005B03884

English Summary/英文概要： Oil companies and oil governments have been covering up depletion of the product on which society has come to depend while stoking addiction and holding back alternatives. The oil topping point, the day half all the world’s oil is used up, is not far off. When it arrives, it will trigger soaring prices, the worst-ever energy crisis, and economic chaos. Meanwhile, global warming caused by oil, gas and coal burning is in danger of running out of control. Society will be forced, albeit in deplorable economic conditions, to solve oil depletion with a crash programme to accelerate alternative energy sources. Will it do so with the technologies that can also solve global warming and save the planet?

Prologue: The Story of the Blue Pearl
PART ONE: OIL DEPLETION
Chapter 1: Insuffiency
Chapter 2: Finding more
Chapter 3: The topping point
Chapter 4: How serious is the crisis?
PART TWO: OIL DEPLETION MEETS GLOBAL WARMING
Chapter 5: Depletion in the greenhouse
Chapter 6: How did we get in this mess? 1. Before the knowledge
Chapter 7: How did we get in this mess? 2. The complicity years
Chapter 8: What can we do about it?
Epilogue: Looking back

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 石油公司和石油政府们一面肆意地满足不断膨胀的石油缺口，遏制其他能源的发展，一面掩盖石油能源告急的事实----石油可是社会发展赖以生存的顶梁柱。石油能源现在最棘手的问题就是，全球一半以上的石油资源即将耗尽。一旦情况恶化成这样，油价飙升不可避免，能源危机一发不可收拾，全球经济势必崩盘。
同时，因大规模使用石油、天然气和煤炭而引发的全球变暖现象濒临失控状。这样一来即使经济状况无论多么恶化，政府这会就不得不想出什么立竿见影方法迫不及待的开发其他尚未被利用的能源来缓解石油缺口。如果从同样可以缓解全球温室效应拯救地球的高科技出发，着手解决石油危机会不会管用呢？

Awards/获奖情况：’Hopefully will inspire people to rely less on oil and to start thinking green before it really is too late.’---The Geographical Magazine, September 2006

A fast-moving, easily readable polemic whose unashamed populism does not obscure the weight of its argument.---The Sunday Times

...a valuable contribution to the library of what is essentially subversive literature… Jeremy Leggett is a fine writer. ---Colin Tudge, The Guardian

About the Author/作者介绍： Jeremy Leggett joined the faculty of Earth Sciences at Imperial College of Science & Technology in 1978, where during an eleven year career he won two major awards for his research on the history of oceans and worked with the oil industry in the UK and abroad. During the mid 1980s he became increasingly concerned about global warming, a process which culminated in his leaving academia and his lucrative oil consulting to join the international environment group Greenpeace. As a campaigner, he has long been involved in the debate over climate change and how to respond to it. The Washington Post has described him as “one of the half-dozen experts most responsible for putting the climate change issue on the international agenda”. He is now Chief Executive of solarcentury, the UK’s largest independent solar electric company, a member of the UK Government’s Renewables Advisory Board and a director of the world’s first private equity investment fund in renewable energy, run by a Swiss bank. .His critically acclaimed account of the first ten years of global warming, The Carbon War, was published by Penguin Press in 1999.
Jeremy Legget于1978年到皇家理工学院地球科学学院任教，在地球学院的十一年执教生涯里，他因在海洋历史研究上的突出成就两次获得大奖，还在英国的石油业以及国外石油产业里崭露头角。八十年代中期，他越来越意识到全球变暖现象的恶化，这迫使他最后不得不离开学术界，也辞去了利润颇丰的石油顾问工作，加入了全球绿色和平组织。作为组织的宣传人员，他长期以来都投身于气候变化的争论中，并积极研究面对日益恶化的全球气候人类该如何做出应对策略。《华盛顿邮报》是这样评论他的：“他是那一小撮把全球气候变更现象推上国际舞台的专家之一。“现在他是英国最大的独立太阳能发电公司“太阳能时代”的CEO，还是英国政府下属的“可利用能源顾问委员会”会员，全球第一家隶属于某瑞士银行专门从事可利用能源投资的私营股票投资基金公司，《碳元素战》于1999年出版，这本书总结了他在过去十年里投身全球气候变化事业的结晶。

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