This revolution began in the 1980s with George P. Mitchell, a Texan entrepreneur who started his career as a dedicated environmentalist, egged on by books like the Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth to try to mitigate the damage being done to the planet. In his case, he reasoned that since natural gas is much less pollutive than coal—with many times less carbon or sulphur emissions—it represented the fuel of the future.
