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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... began to focus my attention on our society's current energy situation. Clearly, over the past century or so we have created a way of life based on mining and consuming fossil energy resources in vast and increasing quantities. Our food ...
... began systematically to research the issues. The petroleum geologists have nothing but contempt for economists who, by reducing all resources to dollar prices, effectively obscure real and important physical distinctions. According to ...
... began long ago and today yields fuels — chemically stored sunlight — that are energy-dense and highly usable. Energy. in. Ecosystems: Eating. and. Being. Eaten. Just as individual organisms use energy, so do complex systems made up of ...
... began with ten rabbits, we will soon have 110. Each of these adds ten more, and before we know it, we have 1,210 rabbits. More rabbits cause more babies, which cause more rabbits, which cause more babies. Obviously, this cannot go on ...
... began to do this many millennia ago, long before Europeans set out deliberately to colonize the rest of the world. Like all organisms, humans seek to capture solar energy. Humans have certain disadvantages as well as advantages in this ...
Contenido
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 |