The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New WorldHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005 - 399 páginas Petroleum is now so deeply entrenched in our economy, our politics, and our personal expectations that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail by the most powerful forces in the world: companies and governments that depend on oil revenues; the developing nations that see oil as the only means to industrial success; and a Western middle class that refuses to modify its energy-dependent lifestyle. But within thirty years, by even conservative estimates, we will have burned our way through most of the oil that is easily accessible. And well before then, the side effects of an oil-based society--economic volatility, geopolitical conflict, and the climate-changing impact of hydrocarbon pollution--will render fossil fuels an all but unacceptable solution. How will we break our addiction to oil? And what will we use in its place to maintain a global economy and political system that are entirely reliant on cheap, readily available energy? Brilliantly reported from around the globe, The End of Oil brings the world situation into fresh and dramatic focus for business and general readers alike. Roberts talks to both oil optimists and oil pessimists, delves deep into the economics and politics of oil, considers the promises and pitfalls of alternatives, and shows that, although the world energy system has begun its epoch-defining transition, disruption and violent dislocation are almost assured if we do not take a more proactive stance. With the topicality and readability of Fast Food Nation and the scope and trenchant analysis of Guns, Germs, and Steel, this is a vitally important book for the new century. |
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... century has slowly been replaced by anxiety. Although, like most consumers, I've been a casual student of this en- ergy anxiety since it began — circa 1974, with the Arab oil embargo — I began exploring the question in earnest during ...
... century of full - bore drilling , oil companies are finding precious little new oil in the Lower Forty - eight , and production the number of barrels pumped per day is falling steadily each year . What this means is that the United ...
... century politics and economics, and the owner of 40 percent of the world energy market. Yet oil is only one of a triad of geological siblings known as hydrocarbons that have dominated the global energy economy for centuries and whose ...
... century . It is a guiding geopolitical principle for all governments , and a largely unchallenged heuristic for a global energy industry whose success is based entirely on its ability to find , produce , and distribute ever - larger ...
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