科学已经非常明确的告诉我们：如果人类希望避免不可逆转的气候崩塌，我们在接下来的十年内必须停止使用化石燃料。在这本简单易读的书中，作者列出我们需要做出的改变。仅用营利性太阳能农场代替燃煤发电厂只会维持一种幻想：人类可以持续不断地扩大能源消耗。我们不能再把能源看作为一种商品，反而该将它看待成全球公域，跟我们的空气、水、植物、文化一样的重要元素，更是我们传给后代的遗产。
 
在《人民的能源》书中，作者叙述了市场如何带领人们转移向再生能源。作者回顾了美国当初开始发展电网的过程，以及在大萧条时期人们为了控制能源而产生的战斗。作者同时也讨论了全球看见的现代运动，各个国家如何支持绿能源，让人们能够公平分享。
 
关于作者：
Ashley Dawson是纽约CUNY的研究生中心的英语学教授，主要是后殖民学的专家。他写过的书包括： "Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change" (Verso, 2017), "Extinction: A Radical History" (O/R Books, 2016), "The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature" (Routledge, 2013), and "Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain" (University of Michigan Press, 2007), and co-editor of "Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities" (Haymarket, 2015), "The State, Democracy, and the Struggle for Global Justice" (Routledge, 2009), "Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus" (University of Michigan Press, 2009), and "Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism" (Duke University Press, 2007)。


好评：
“An elegant, controversial thesis” —The Guardian on Ashley Dawson’s Extinction
 
“For anyone wanting to understand what comes after oil and how we might get there.” —Imre Szeman, author of On Petrocultures
 
“A gift to activists, providing a clear and accessible history of energy as well as a vision towards the publicly owned, democratically controlled, 100% renewable world we need.”—Aaron Eisenberg, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation