Power to the People by Vijay Vaitheeswaran, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25, ISBN 0374236755 Reviewed by Fred Pearce
TO make sense of the shifting world of energy, you need a good guide. Vijay Vaitheeswaran’s Power to the People is a lucid guide to the new energy landscape, from Edison to Enron, from coal to carbon nanotubes. The energy industry may be the environmentalists’ number-one enemy. But it also offers us an unparalleled window to a sustainable future for our abused planet. For it is the only one among the great industries of our modern world – think water, farming, construction, mining,…
