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Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis by Jeremy Leggett

Politics / Economics.
June 2006.
Paperback (198 x 129mm).
£8.99. 336 pp.
ISBN: 1 84627 005 7

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'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.' Jonathon Porritt

'Leggett knows what he's talking about... A fast-moving, easily readable polemic whose unashamed populism does not obscure the weight of its argument.' Sunday Times
'Half Gone makes for startling reading. Leggett is not a Cassandra, but a scientist with decades of experience and an agenda for a future that, one hopes, will begin a debate about how to end the global energy crisis which is almost upon us. This is a compelling must-read book for politicians, pundits and punters alike.' Independent

'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
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