An ok alternative in english would be Facing the Anthropocene, by Ian Angus (but the scope of that book is way more limited, and it's markedly political, specifically ecosocialist)
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#14David MacKay's Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
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#15Sustainable Energy – without the hot air, by David J. C. MacKay.
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#16Bill Gates “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need”.
His huge investment in modular nuclear reactors may not be all it's cracked up to be.
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#17https://www.elsevier.com/books/managing-global-warming/letch...
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#18Drawdown
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#20David MacKay's Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
This is really outdated, so unless you want to marvel at how wrong even a smart and well-meaning person could be in the face of rapid technological change, probably not worth revisiting. There's been a few attempts to update it with modern numbers but they're so different it effectively nullifies the whole point of the book.