Half Gone: Press reviews

'I can tell you this: if you want one book that really deals with climate change and oil depletion, and attempts to explain the complications of it, I recommend Leggett's to you.'

Bill Clinton

'I hope this book will not be an obituary for the human species. But the denial and double-think it exposes suggest that, unless we change pretty smartly, we can expect to be overtaken by the catastrophes Leggett documents. His book demands to be read.’

George Monbiot

‘It's really excellent. Personal and passionate, but strong on the science and eminently reasonable. Certainly the best account of the Peak Oil debate that I have come across so far, and I really hope that it is having the impact on key people that it deserves.’

Jonathan Porrit

'Truly fascinating'

Ian McEwan

‘Leggett knows what he’s talking about…. A fast-moving, easily readable polemic whose unashamed populism does not obscure the weight of its argument.’

The Sunday Times

'The author pulls together a coherent case… oil depletion is now meeting global warming – twin threats that have been known about for years but wilfully ignored…

This is a mix of textbook and a call to arms… Few people could make a transition from geologist to oil consultant to chief scientist for Greenpeace and then to boss of Britain’s largest solar energy company… His personal insights are fascinating… the writing is always clear and conveys complicated but important technicalities in very accessible terms.'

Daily Mail

‘a valuable contribution to the library of what is essentially subversive literature… Jeremy Leggett is a fine writer.’

Guardian

‘He does a wonderful job of explaining the size of the problem that will lead to a move away from burning oil.’

TLS

'Among the shelf full of books on the oil situation that have been published in the last year or so, (this) is far and away the best.'

Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute