The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial SocietiesNew Society Publishers, 2005 M08 1 - 288 páginas The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter was from medieval times. In The Party's Over , Richard Heinberg places this momentous transition in historical context, showing how industrialism arose from the harnessing of fossil fuels, how competition to control access to oil shaped the geopolitics of the 20th century, and how contention for dwindling energy resources in the 21st century will lead to resource wars in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South America. He describes the likely impacts of oil depletion, and all of the energy alternatives. Predicting chaos unless the U.S. -- the world's foremost oil consumer -- is willing to join with other countries to implement a global program of resource conservation and sharing, he also recommends a "managed collapse" that might make way for a slower-paced, low-energy, sustainable society in the future. More readable than other accounts of this issue, with fuller discussion of the context, social implications, and recommendations for personal, community, national, and global action, Heinberg's updated book is a riveting wake-up call for humankind as the oil era winds down, and a critical tool for understanding and influencing current U.S. foreign policy. Listen to an interview with Richard Heinberg from WRPI.
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... animals are consumers. There are several categories of consumers: herbivores, which eat plants; carnivores, which eat other consumers (primary carnivores eat herbivores, secondary carnivores eat other carnivores, and tertiary carnivores ...
Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg. animal remains are transformed into hydrocarbons as oxygen atoms are removed from the carbohydrate organic matter. This is the chemical basis for the formation of fossil ...
... animals avoid wasting energy in fights by learning to predict one another's behavior from signals like posture, vocalizations, and scent marks.3 As a result, climax ecosystems give the appearance of cooperation and harmony among member ...
... animals such as mice, where females typically ovulate more slowly or cease ovulation altogether if populations become too dense. In many bird species, much of the adult population simply does not breed when there is no food-energy ...
... animals. We lived within the energy balance of climax ecosystems — altering our environment (as every species does), yet maintaining homeostatic, reciprocally limiting relationships with both our prey and our predators. However, humans ...
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LIGHTS OUT APPROACHING THE HISTORIC INTERVALS | |
NONPETROLEUM ENERGY SOURCES | |
Hydrogen | |
A BANQUET OF CONSEQUENCES | |
MANAGING THE COLLAPSE | |
AFTERWORD TO THE REVISED EDITION | |
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The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |