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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... effect, get along without natural resources.” 1 Economists like him have a happy, cornucopian view of our energy future. If an energy crisis appears, it will be a temporary one caused by “market imperfections” resulting from government ...
... effect and environmental pollution, to halt the destruction of local communities and cultures, or to preserve human health and sanity. Though I agree with those prescriptions, this is not another such book. Until now, humankind has at ...
... effect. They have found ways to measure energy quite precisely in terms of ergs, watts, calories, and joules. Still, physicists have no more insight into energy's ultimate essence than do poets or philosophers. They therefore define ...
Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg. effect, available energy is always being lost. The Second Law is known as the law of entropy — a term coined by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius in 1868 as a measure of ...
... effect, consumers feed on order and excrete chaos in order to survive. All animals are consumers. There are several categories of consumers: herbivores, which eat plants; carnivores, which eat other consumers (primary carnivores eat ...
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 |