Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- PART I The Pillars of a Realistic Energy Policy -- Chapter 1 Energy Means Power -- 1. Nothing Hurts as Much as the Truth -- 2. The Correlation between Global Population and Energy Demand -- 3. Current Problems Go Well Beyond Pollution -- 4. Decisions on Energy and on Biocides are Political -- 5. 'Climategates' Hurt the Cause of Environmentalists -- 6. Scientists against Environmental Alarmism -- 7. The Able Management of Human and Natural Resources -- 8. The Priority should be Energy Conservation -- Chapter 2 The European Energy Policy Dilemma -- 1. The European Union and Energy Supplies -- 2. Big Lies Have Short Legs -- 3. Energy Policy in the European Union -- 4. What the European Union's Energy Plans Have Missed -- 5. Patterns of Energy Usage: An Example from Britain -- 6. Phasing Out Oil: Case Study on Sweden -- 7. Biofuels Can Assure Continuing Delivery of Energy to the European Union -- Chapter 3 Managed Oil Markets -- 1. The Power of Power Cuts -- 2. The Insatiable Public Demand for Oil -- 3. Markets for Energy and the Macro-economy -- 4. Financial Speculation and Oil Markets -- 5. Paper Barrels -- 6. Unconventional Exploration of the Earth's Oil Resources -- 7. Challenges Associated with Unconventional Deepwater Exploration -- 8. The Case of Financial Consequences -- Chapter 4 Nuclear Energy -- 1. Past, Present and Future -- 2. Who Will Pay for the Nuclear Renaissance? -- 3. Nuclear Energy: Love it or Hate it -- 4. Eighty Per Cent of Power Delivered from Nuclear Plants: Case Study on France -- 5. Britain, Germany and Italy at the Crossroads -- 6. A Nuclear Power Take-off in the United States? -- 7. Train, Train and Test -- 8. Managing the Downside of Nuclear Energy -- Appendix: Fusion Power is a Far-out Event -- Chapter 5 Alternative Energy Supplies.

1. Sustainable Development or Alternative Energy -- 2. Alternative Energy and Decarbonized Energy are not Exactly the Same -- 3. Hydroelectric Power -- 4. Solar Power -- 5. Preferential Tariffs Feed Inflation -- 6. Wind Power -- 7. Geothermal Power -- 8. Hydrogen as an Energy Source -- 9. Clean Coal and Other Alternative Energies -- Appendix: Legal Risks Associated with Wind Turbines -- PART II Biofuels, The Green and Blue Revolutions, and Agricultural Policy -- Chapter 6 Biofuels and the European Union -- 1. Biomass as Source of Energy -- 2. Self-sufficiency in Energy: Case Study on Brazil -- 3. Many Problems Relate to Intensive Agriculture, and Not Just to Biofuels -- 4. Other Headwinds Encountered by Biofuels -- 5. The New Generation of Biofuels: The Need for International Standards -- 6. Gas and Biofuels: The Real Challengers -- 7. Wholesale Dependence on the Status Quo: The Wrong Bet -- Appendix: The Renewal Fuels Standard by EPA -- Chapter 7 The Green and Blue Revolutions that Have Never Been -- 1. Agflation and the Daily Bread -- 2. The Green Revolution? 'Tell Them I Lied' -- 3. A Second Grand Illusion: The Blue Revolution -- 4. Getting Marine Life Ready for the Table -- 5. Lessons from the Failure of the Blue Revolution -- 6. City versus Farm in Less Developed Countries -- 7. The Destructive Forces of Unstoppable Foreign Aid and Beggars' Policies -- Chapter 8 The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy and its Travails -- 1. Globalization Cannot be Allowed to Destroy Western Farming -- 2. A Bridge Too Far for Globalized Agriculture -- 3. A Common Agricultural Policy? -- 4. From Chaos to Uncertainty: The European Union's Agricultural Goals -- 5. Flaws in the EU Common Agricultural Policy -- 6. Controlling the Global Food Trade's Health Hazards -- 7. Wrong-way Risk with the European Union's Agricultural Subsidies.

PART III Business Consequences of A Deteriorating World Environment -- Chapter 9 Strategic Inflection Points, Business Risks and Opportunities -- 1. Business Consequences of Major Inflection Points -- 2. Shareholder Activism for Environmental Protection -- 3. Global Warming Liability Risks -- 4. Wind Power in the Danish Island of Samsø: A Case Study -- 5. A Counterexample: 'Gone With the Wind' -- 6. The Future of the Biofuels Industry in the European Union -- 7. Greater Efficiency in Energy Production is Long Overdue -- 8. Capitalizing on Technology and Research Results -- Chapter 10 Producing and Trading Carbon Dioxide -- 1. A Man-made Ecological Collapse -- 2. The Scourge of Booming CO2 and Other GHGs -- 3. The Vatican is Not Alone in Giving Indulgences -- 4. Life, as We Know It, Would Not Have Developed Without an Ozone Layer -- 5. Transportation: The Biggest CO2 Polluter -- 6. The Electric Car's Dark Prospects -- 7. Is There Any Sense in Cap-and-Trade CO2? -- 8. Carbon Tax versus Cap-and-Trade -- Chapter 11 Forests and Oceans: The Lungs of the Earth -- 1. Earth's Citizens: Their Responsibilities and Rights -- 2. The Holocaust of Forests -- 3. Game Slaughtered by Words Cannot be Skinned -- 4. Man's Abuse of the Oceans -- 5. Man's Destruction of Antarctic Wilderness -- 6. The Earth's Disappearing Land Assets -- 7. Man-made Mountains of Waste as Tall as Mount Everest -- Chapter 12 The Scarcity of Clean Water and its Impact -- 1. Water and Energy: Strategic and Scarce Products -- 2. Confronting the Hydra of Clean Water Scarcity -- 3. Water: Prime Ingredient of Life and Daily Necessity -- 4. Downstream Quality Rights and Water Wars -- 5. For Business, the Silver Lining is Infrastructural Renewal -- 6. Investment in Sewage and Water Treatment -- 7. Desalinated Water: An Alternative Clean Water Supply?.

PART IV The World's Salient Problem Has Not Been Solved -- Chapter 13 Human Fertility: The Number One Environmental Enemy -- 1. The Self-decimation of Homo Sapiens -- 2. The Correlation between Birth Control and Quality of Life -- 3. Man against Himself -- 4. Fertility Will not Fall without Licensing the Newborn -- 5. Facing the Challenges of Downsizing -- 6. Establishing the Right Priorities for a Turnaround -- 7. Back to Basics: The Earth's Population must be Commensurate to Resources, Well-educated and Self-sustainable -- Chapter 14 United Nations and its Conferences on Environmental Collapse -- 1. The UN's Entry into Environmental Issues: UNEP and the 1987 Montreal Protocol -- 2. The Road from Rio 1992 to Kyoto 1997 -- 3. Hollywood Enters the Environmental Protection Game -- 4. Copenhagen 1995 and Copenhagen 2009 -- 5. Fiascopenhague: The End Game -- 6. Money, Money, Money Going Down the Drain -- 7. Imperial China: Reborn at the Copenhagen Circus -- 8. Pax Sinica? -- Chapter 15 Can Science and Technology Solve Mankind's Practical Environmental Problems? -- 1. The Helping Hand of Science -- 2. Disruptive and Sustaining Cleantech -- 3. Intelligent Grids for Power Distribution -- 4. Software and its Impact on Modern Technology -- 5. The Disruptive Impact of Advanced Software -- 6. Environmental and Other Risks Associated with Technology -- 7. Power Consumption Increases with the Spread of Technology -- 8. Conclusion: The Badly Misunderstood Role of Scientists and Technologists -- PART V Appendices -- Appendix A: The Best Way to Judge Progress towards Sustainable Fertility is by Agricultural Self-sufficiency -- Appendix B: Independence in Energy Supplies is as Important as Independence in Food -- Appendix C: Wastage has become Second Nature -- Appendix D: Recycling is Wanting Because Progress in Materials Science is Lop-sided -- Index.