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.
|
Dentro del libro
Resultados 6-10 de 27
... begin to understand how and why Homo sapiens — one species among millions — has come to dominate the planetary biosphere. Takeover. The first and most basic strategy that we have used to increase the human carrying capacity of our ...
... begin treating other human beings as tools. This scheme at first took the form of slavery. Some humans could capture the energy of others who had been seized in war, putting them to work at tasks too dangerous, dreary, or physically ...
... begin with geology and geography. The North American continent, which Europeans began to explore and claim in the early 16th century, was a place of extraordinary biotic and mineral abundance. Early Spanish conquistadors found vast ...
... begin out of necessity. When circumstances are comfortable, people tend to prefer doing things in old, familiar ways. It is when things aren't going well — that is, during times of an energy deficit, in any of its multitude of forms ...
... begin in earnest; by 1910, coal accounted for three-quarters of the nation's energy supply. Like Britain, the US was favored with abundant indigenous deposits, especially in the mountainous regions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia ...
Contenido
LIGHTS OUT APPROACHING THE HISTORIC INTERVALS | |
NONPETROLEUM ENERGY SOURCES | |
Hydrogen | |
A BANQUET OF CONSEQUENCES | |
MANAGING THE COLLAPSE | |
AFTERWORD TO THE REVISED EDITION | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |