Systemic global risks of oil supply, climate shock and financial collapse threaten tomorrow's economies and mean businesses and policy makers face huge challenges in fuelling tomorrow’s world.

Jeremy Leggett gives a personal testimony of the dangers often ignored and incompletely understood - a journey through the human mind, the institutionalization of denial, and the reasons civilizations fail. It is also an account of tantalizing hope, because mobilizing renewables and redeploying energy funding can soften the crash of modern capitalism and set us on a road to renaissance.

 

Systemic global risks of oil supply, climate shock and financial collapse threaten tomorrow's economies and mean businesses and policy makers face huge challenges in fuelling tomorrow’s world.

Part I A history 1 Lies, scaremongering and affordable oil 2 Under the volcano 3 Doomed to failure 4 We are not responsible 5 The risk of contingency 6 The small print 7 When the dancing stops 8 This house believes 9 We will be blamed forever 10 As bad as the credit crunch 11 You are the flip side of austerity. 12 Houston, it's just possible we may have a problem 13 The anti-Oil Shock Response Plan plan 14 A 'bollocks' subject 15 To the point of being suicidal 16 A new era of fossil fuels 17 More unhinged by the week Part II A future 18 What next? The anatomy of the biggest crash 19 The power of context: energy and security 20 The choice of roads: people and systems Notes Index