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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... capacity to move or change matter.” It is this quantifiable meaning of the term energy that concerns us in this book. Though we are considering something inherently elusive (we cannot, after all, hold a jar of pure energy in our hands ...
... capacity, that is the maximum population load of any given species that is able to be supported by its environment on an ongoing basis. Energy is not the only factor, however; the operative principle in determining carrying capacity is ...
... capacity. The likelihood of overshoot is increased by the fact that the environment's carrying capacity for rabbits is not static. Since the proliferating rabbits may eat available vegetation at a faster rate than it can naturally be ...
... thereby expanding the human carrying capacity of our environments: • takeover, • tool use, • specialization, • scope enlargement, and • drawdown.6 While other Social Leveraging Strategies: How to Gain an Energy Subsidy.
... capacity of our environments is one that William Catton, in his pathbreaking book Overshoot (1980), called takeover. It consists, in his words, ... of diverting some fraction of the earth's life-supporting capacity from supporting other ...
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 |