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Greg discussed the book on cspan in 2014, after its release. Leggetts frontline chronicle tells one persons story of those turnaround years, culminating in dramatic scenes at the paris climate summit, and what they can mean for the world. Feb 20, 2018 history and future of the global energy transition in pictures and charts, 2016 2017 1. Oil, gas, hot air, and the coming global financial. Jeremy leggetts new serialised freedownload book, the test. Dec 21, 2015 humanity is in a race, a kind of civil war. Global warming has surfaced as the political issue of the nineties. Jeremy leggett appropriate civilization versus new despotism.
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