THE CARBON WAR

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If only he had the money 51 Now in his speech to the Davos plenary the UK prime minister says he aspires to frack cheap shale gas from below UK soils on a scale sufficient to lure big manufacturers back to the country. It is, I have to admit, a very alluring narrative for a political leader. How inconvenient he is going to find it when he discovers that it is based on illusion. My hope is that he will discover this in 2015, in time to change course before Paris. Deprived of cheap gas, he will have only one place to go, so I reckon. Nuclear is being exposed as an unaffordable white elephant. He will have to go for a green industrial revolution. Exactly what a meaningful Paris treaty will mandate.
Chapter 6 He who brings light Kenya, 3 rd February 2014 A crack-of-dawn flight from Nairobi, west to Eldoret. A field team of three from SolarAid’s retail arm, SunnyMoney, meets me at the airport, and we drive in a van nearly two hours further west, to Bungoma, a market town near the border with Uganda. Along the way, greenery; fields of maize, cropped; sugarcane, uncropped. This is the breadbasket of Kenya. A street in that teeming town. The Wells Fargo depot: one of the booths in one of the concrete multi-shop facades with hand-painted signs, next to a wood yard. Every second shop seems to bear a green M-Pesa logo. This pay-by-mobile brand has gone from nowhere to everywhere in the last ten years. A little of this kind of market penetration is what SunnyMoney will need, I reflect, if SolarAid is to sell enough lights across Africa to achieve our mission of playing a lead role in ridding the continent of kerosene lanterns by the end of the decade. We fill the van with freshly-delivered boxes of solar lights. Thirty boxes, ten lights apiece. I do a rough calculation. We have sold 500,000 in the last six months, across our four countries of operation. That’s 1,600 loads like this. In the centre of town sits a Total filling station. We have seen several such along the way. Total is the second biggest seller of solar lanterns in Africa, after SunnyMoney, retailing from forecourts such as these. They also sell kerosene, so you could say they are hedging their bets. En route we passed the oil refinery that serves this region, dozens of tankers in a queue stretching away from it, sprawling along the roadsides, waiting to be filled with the derivatives of crude oil delivered by pipeline from Mombasa. Further along the road to Uganda we turn right, and drive five bouncing miles down a red earth road, spewing dust behind us. We pass a school,
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