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The Clean Industrial Revolution: Growing Australian Prosperity in a Greenhouse Age
Author(s): Ben McNeil (Author)
- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- Publication Date: May 1, 2009
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 1741757223
- ISBN-13: 9781741757224
Book Description
The world is in the midst of a seismic shift in the way it generates energy and grows economic prosperity. Since the first industrial revolution we’ve been burning carbon to run our lives, but climate change and dwindling supplies of oil are now forging a new clean industrial revolution which will end our reliance on carbon for good. In this compelling book, climate scientist and economist Ben McNeil demonstrates the immense economic opportunities which will open up if Australia leads the new clean industrial revolution. He shows how investing, commercializing, and exporting the new fuels, materials, and technologies for the twenty-first century will boost economic prosperity as well as environmental sustainability. In a world craving clean energy, nations and businesses who are clever and courageous enough to embrace the change will thrive.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Humanity’s greatest challenge is to minimise the consequences of climate change. With challenge comes opportunity. This book is about opportunity.” —Professor Peter Doherty, winner, Nobel prize
“A passionate and informative demonstration of how mitigating climate change can be compatible with economic growth.” —Professor Ross Garnaut,
Garnaut Climate Change ReviewAbout the Author
Ben McNeil is a senior research fellow at the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New South Wales and an executive with the prestigious Federation of Australasian Scientific and Technological Societies. He speaks regularly at corporate and scientific events and to the media.
