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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... 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 Richard ...
... fuel depletion; • the immediacy of a peak in fossil fuel production, meaning that soon less will be available with each passing year regardless of how many wild lands are explored or how many wells are drilled; • the role of oil in US ...
... fuels — whether to use constantly more and suffer the long-term consequences or to conserve and thus forgo immediate ... fuel the invention of spectacular new technologies, and to fund a way of life that is opulent and fast- paced. It is ...
... fuel production. We will explore the connections between petroleum dependence, world food systems, and the global economy. We will also examine the global strategic competition for dwindling petroleum resources and attempt to predict ...
... fuels. The law of entropy holds true for matter as well as for energy. When energy is dissipated, the result is ... fuel life comes from the Sun. There are a very few exceptions; for example, oceanographers have discovered organisms ...
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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 |