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This is a book about living in a low-carbon society. There are already hundreds of millions of people leading such a lifestyle, but this book is not aimed at them. These people are, of course, the world’s poor, living on a few dollars a day and unable to afford fossil fuels, and they subsist mainly on biomass. Their fervent desire is to join our current carbon-intensive society and enjoy its wealth of consumption.
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Herring, H. (2012). Introduction. In: Herring, H. (eds) Living in a Low-Carbon Society in 2050. Energy, Climate and the Environment Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264893_1
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