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Building a solar civilization

Interview: Jeremy Leggett, British social entrepreneur, writer, campaigner and founder of Solarcentury and SolarAid, tells pv magazine how a solar civilazation can be an effective buck-stop against the populist forces that seek to undermine and discredit the transformative power of renewable technologies It is solar, in all its forms, that is bringing the fight against malign forces, he says.

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Ian Clover

09 May 2017

pv magazine: Could you begin by briefly explaining what your Solar Civilization campaign – if we can call it that – is, and how it came about? Jeremy Leggett: Malign forces are gaining ground in modern liberal democracies: nationalist, populist demagogues, often led by aspiring despots. They tend to back fossil fuels. They are often financed …

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