Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- contents -- preface a tale of two planets -- part one the best of times -- one the rise of innovation -- two the incredible present -- part two the worst of times -- three running out of steam -- four peak everything? -- five greenhouse earth -- six end of the party? -- part three the power of ideas -- seven the first energy technology -- eight the transformer -- nine the substitute -- ten the reducer -- eleven the recycler -- twelve the multiplier -- part four unleashing innovation -- thirteen investing in ideas -- fourteen the flaw in the market -- fifteen market solutions -- sixteen the unthinkable here there be dragons -- seventeen the unthinkable climate engineering -- eighteen greener than green -- nineteen the decoupler -- twenty of mouths and minds -- twenty-one easy way, hard way -- coda living in the twenty-first century -- acknowledgments -- notes -- index.