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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... competition or with a spirit of cooperation. We will face this decision at all levels of society — from the family and neighborhood to the global arena of nations and cultures. 1 Energy, Nature and Society The life contest is primarily.
... level of order and complexity by increasing their energy flow-through; but by doing so, they also inevitably increase the entropy within the larger system of which they are a part. Matter is capable of storing energy through its ...
... are able to convert only about one to five percent into chemical energy. Still, even at this low level of efficiency, photosynthetic organisms each year capture a little more than twice the total amount of energy used annually by human.
... level to the next. Thus, if green plants in a given area capture, for example, 10,000 units of solar energy, then roughly 1,000 units will be available to support herbivores, even if they eat all of the plants; only 100 units will be ...
... levels there are in the system, the greater the cumulative energy losses. In every ecosystem, most of the chemically bound energy is contained among the producers, which also account for most of the biomass. The herbivores present will ...
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 |