The Green Bubble: Waste into Wealth: The New Energy Revolution - Softcover

Bell, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789209551 ISBN 13: 9780789209559

Publisher: Abbeville Press, 2008

Synopsis

In this prescient volume, noted economist Robert Bell argues that the next four years will be an increasingly frenzied lead-up to a gigantic stockmarket bubble in renewable energy;—the new energy revolution will have a profound impact on everything that humanbeings construct, move, or deliberately heat or cool; and the consequences of the first truly global stock market bubble will transformevery country, every industry, and nearly every business.But after the bubble bursts, most of the investors in the bubble, those who didnot get out in time and numbering perhaps a billion or more, will have lost a materialamount of their life savings. Some will have invested individually, others through theirpension funds, still others through their governmentGÇÖs tax money, and, finally, quite afew through all of the above.And, what of the outcome? A World-War magnitude of invested money willactually have paid for the transformation out of oil and into renewable energy. Theresult the climate will probably have been saved, and there will be nearly limitlessenergy. But it will have virtually no monetary value. Energy will be GÇ£too cheap tometer.GÇ¥Readers of The Green Bubble will learn about the new energy revolution and willdiscover what works and what doesn't, and why they will have to watch their investmentsclosely especially those made by others on their behalf.

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From the Publisher:

* The next four years will be an increasingly frenzied lead-up to a gigantic stock market bubble in renewable energy.

* The new energy revolution will have a profound impact on everything that human beings construct, move, or deliberately heat or cool.

* The consequences of the first truly global stock market bubble will transform every country, every industry, and nearly every business.

This book will act as a road map for the new energy revolution. It will serve as a guide to understanding the rapidly unfolding events, as well as a business reference for individual and institutional investors and for government policy advisors.

The Green Bubble explains why huge global, political, and economic changes will occur, what changes will be promoted, and who will promote them -- in short, who will gain and who will lose.

But after the bubble bursts, most of the investors in the bubble, those who did not get out in time and numbering perhaps a billion or more, will have lost a material amount of their life savings. Some will have invested individually, others through their pension funds, still others through their government's tax money, and, finally, quite a few through all of the above.

And, what of the outcome? A World War magnitude of invested money will actually have paid for the transformation out of oil and into renewable energy. The result -- the climate will probably have been saved, and there will be nearly limitless energy. But it will have virtually no monetary value. Energy will be "too cheap to meter."

Readers of The Green Bubble will learn about the new energy revolution and will discover what works and what doesn't, and why they will have to watch their investments closely -- especially those made by others on their behalf.

About the Author:

Robert Bell, Ph.D. (Cybernetics), Professor of Management and Chairman of the Economics Department, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, is the author of seven previous books, including: Beursbedrog (The Stock Market Sting), De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, 2003; Les Pêchés capitaux de la haute technologie (The Capital Sins of High Technology), Seuil, Paris, 1998; Impure Science, Wiley, N.Y., 1992. He lives in New York and Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0789209551
• ISBN 13: 9780789209559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304