Unlimited Energy : How Renewable Energy Investments Will Drive Global Change in the 21st Century
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The idea of a sustainable society, a global that will drive the global economy of the future, of industrialism aiming for unlimited growth At the beginning of the 21st century, Investments in the Global Energy Turn- German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) and member of the Knowledge Unlimited Energy: How Renewable Energy Investments Will Drive Global Change in the 21st Century - Kindle edition Andrew Duggan. Download it once and To have any chance of preventing dangerous climate change, the world needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero or even negative mid-century.Many experts suggest this means we need to completely phase out fossil fuels and replace them with renewable energy sources such as solar and wind. 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