HERMANN SCHEER

Herman Scheer was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize in 1999The global economy and our way of life are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels, which not only threaten massive environmental and social disruption through global warming but, at present rates of consumption, will run out within decades, causing huge industrial dislocation and economic collapse. Even before then, the conflicts it causes in the Middle East and elsewhere will be frighteningly exacerbated.The alternate exists: renewable energy from renewable sources - above all, solar. Substituting renewable for fossil resources will take a new industrial revolution to avert the worst of the damage and establish a new international order.It can be done, and it can be done in time. "The Solar Economy," by one of the world''s most effective analysts and advocates, lays out the blueprints, showing how the political, economic, and technological challenges can be met using indigenous, renewable, and universally available resources, and the enormous opportunities and benefits that will flow from doing so.

Galardonado en 1999 con el Premio Nobel Alternativo, el sociólogo y economista Hermann Scheer establece en estas páginas tan interesantes como comprometidas los caminos posibles hacia una ecología moderna. Esta obra se ha convertido en la Biblia de la ecologia moderna y lleva ya cinco ediciones. Recientemente el libro ha sido designado poruna institucion alemana como 'el libro medioambiental del año'