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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... appearance on the world scene. Europeans had in fact arrived in North America several centuries before Columbus: the Norse and possibly the Irish made the voyage repeatedly between approximately 1000 and 1350 AD. However, all that ...
... appeared, consisting of iron components for windmills and watermills, such as the heavy tilt-hammers used in iron forging. Iron played no small part in this first industrial revolution. The use of iron can be traced back to the 15th ...
... the 12th and 13th centuries. Between 400 and 1600 AD, the amount of forest cover in Europe was reduced from 95 percent to 20 percent. As scarcities appeared, wood began to be transported th ever further distances by cart and by water. By.
... appeared in England in the 1790s, when William Murdock, an engineer and inventor, lit his own factory and then a large cotton mill in Manchester. The first gas street lighting was installed in London in 1807. In the United States ...
... promotion of electric lighting in the 1880s, demand for kerosene peaked and began to recede. However, new uses for petroleum more than took up the slack. Oil-burning furnaces appeared toward the end of the century, as well as.
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 |