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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... investments in institutional support (including investments in legitimization and coercion) are still increasing. This eventually makes the strategy of complexity itself less palatable to the population. According to Tainter, a society ...
... investment, as the accumulated surpluses of the Mediterranean and adjacent lands were appropriated by the conquerors ... investments in complexity gradually diminish. After a society passes point B2/C2, its returns on investment become ...
... investments in drawdown and industrial production were staggering. Costs were extraordinary as well, but they could easily be borne. As Tainter puts it, with subsidies of inexpensive fossil fuels, for a long time many consequences of ...
... investments in education, military hardware, information processing, and scientific research. As we will see in more detail in Chapter 3, the drawdown of fossil fuels is itself subject to the law of diminishing returns. Early investments ...
... investments in tool making, and so the breakthrough to the production of Class D tools was for them merely the next step in a long evolution of strategic leveraging. As we have already noted, the entire process of industrialization was ...
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 |