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The book Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy, is written by Hermann Scheer.
For 200 years industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap fossil fuels. But continued reliance has had some adverse social and environmental consequences. The solution, explains Scheer, is to make the transition to renewable energy and distributed, decentralized energy generation. Scheer argues that this is a model that has been proven, technologically, commercially and politically. Much progress with renewable energy commercialization has already been made in Europe where the renewable energy industry is a multi-billion Euro industry with high growth rates.[1]
Dr Hermann Scheer is a physicist, a member of the German Bundestag (Parliament), President of EUROSTAR (the European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy.[2]