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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... materials. I am also indebted to Ron Swenson, an expert on renewable energies, who offered immensely valuable insights and suggestions for Chapter 4. For the past several years my students at New College of California have heard me ...
... or college courses in physics, chemistry, and biology. I begin with this material because it is absolutely essential to the understanding of all that follows throughout the book. Have patience. CHAPTER 1: ENERGY, NATURE AND SOCIETY.
... Materials that store energy are called fuels. The law of entropy holds true for matter as well as for energy. When energy is dissipated, the result is called heat death. When matter is eroded or degraded, the result is called matter ...
... materials from the soil drawn up through the plants' roots. This is only partly true: plants do require minerals from the soil, but most of their mass is actually derived from air, water and sunlight, via photosynthesis. Hundreds of ...
... material — which they excrete into the environment. In effect, consumers feed on order and excrete chaos in order to ... materials, a chemical process based on aerobic respiration occurs, with carbon-based organic material combining with ...
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 |
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |