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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... fossil fuels, and the formidable impediments to making the transition that would allow industrial civilization to continue, are important to every investor and citizen. — Virginia Deane Abernethy, Ph.D., author of Population Politics ...
... fossil fuel energy resources as well as the inability of alternatives to fully substitute for the concentrated, convenient energy source that fossil fuels provide; • the vulnerability of industrial societies to economic and political ...
... fossil fuels — whether to use constantly more and suffer the long-term consequences or to conserve and thus forgo immediate profits and industrial growth. The message here is that we are about to enter a new era in which, each year ...
... fossil fuels, hydro power, and nuclear power combined. The relative vastness of this solar-energy influx as compared with society's energy needs might suggest that humans will never face a true energy shortage. But only some of this ...
... fossil fuels. It is now believed that most oil comes from a few brief epochs of extreme global warming over quite short spans of geological time. The process began long ago and today yields fuels — chemically stored sunlight — that are ...
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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 |
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |