Power Struggle: World Energy in the Twenty-First Century

Can catastrophic climate change in this century be averted without strangling the world economy and global aspirations for improved living standards-both of which depend on the continuing prominence of fossil fuels in the 21st century? Power Struggle: World Energy in the Twenty-First Century argues that it can. Moroney demonstrates that energy is the cornerstone of world civilization and global economic growth by measuring the tight coupling between energy per capita and real standards of l...