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From fossil fuels to solar power: The power of the pyromaniacs; Fossilresource dependency - how economic processes have come adrift from theirenvironmental and social bases; Global competition in place of globalenvironmental policy; The origins of the fossil-fuel economy; Acceleratingchange and global displacement; Business unbound - cutting loose from natureand society; Reconnecting business and society through solar resources; Fromthe political to the economic solar manifesto. PART I CAPTIVITY ORLIBERATION: FOSSIL FUEL AND SOLAR SUPPLY CHAINS COMPARED: ensnared by fossilsupply chains; exploiting solar resources - the new political and andeconomic freedom. PART II THE PATHOLOGICAL POLITICS OF FOSSIL RESOURCES: the21st-century writing on the wall - the political cost of fuel and resourceconflict; the distorting effects of fossil supply chains; the mythology offossil energy. PART III THROWING OFF THE FOSSIL SUPPLY CHAINS: energy beyondthe grid; the untapped wealth of solar resources; The profitability ofrenewable energy and resources. PART IV TOWARDS A SOLAR ECONOMY: exploitingsolar energy; Regionalization of the global economy through solar resources;the visible hand of the sun - blueprint for a solar world