Jeremy Leggett, Author
"The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Global Financial Catastrophe"

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In The Empty Tank, Jeremy Leggett, an internationally renowned geologist and energy entrepreneur who spent the 1980s working for Big Oil, sounds the alarm about an unprecedented crisis.

The oil topping point–the day half of all the world’s oil is used up–will be reached, by many calculations, sometime soon. In fact, it may already be upon us. When the financial markets realize what’s happening, an economic crash and soaring energy prices will result. The entire global marketplace we all inhabit will crack and crumble.

Oil companies and governments don’t want you to know this. They have been covering up depletion, while stoking addiction and holding back alternatives. Leggett shows how major energy producers have been exposed providing false information about climate change and underground reserves.

He describes how governments collude with private enterprise and one another to keep the global economy hooked on oil. And he explains the science behind oil extraction, demonstrating with unimpeachable expertise why the well is indeed running dry a lot faster than we think.

Written with verve and eloquence, The Empty Tank explains how we became addicted to oil and why that addiction is leading us toward disaster. Yet Leggett also points the way forward. All the technology we need to get off the road to disaster is already at hand. A new Manhattan Project for energy can save us if we can wake up and confront the problem directly, as this important book urges us to do.

Jeremy Leggett spent the 1980s in the service of Big Oil, as a geologist and faculty member of the Royal School of Mines in London, and the ’90s as top campaigner for Greenpeace International; he has spent the ’00s as a leading alternative-energy activist and entrepreneur. He is the author of The Carbon War. Leggett is a recipient of the U.S. Climate Institute’s Award for Advancing Understanding, was named by Time magazine as “one of the next generation of young leaders” for his work on renewable energy sources, and is currently CEO of one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the United Kingdom. He lives in London.

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