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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... Chapter 1 is a general discussion of energy in nature and human societies. In it we see just how central a role energy has played in the past and why it will shape the fates of nations in the decades ahead. This chapter is a brief ...
... Chapter 3 is in many respects the informational core of the book. In it we will learn to assess oil resources and review estimates of current reserves and extraction rates. Many readers may find the information in this chapter ...
... chapter we will first review some basic facts about energy and the ways in which nature and human societies function in relation to it. We will follow this discussion of principles with an exploration of the history of the United States ...
... (Chapter 5 provides a closer look at the likely consequences of the anticipated petroleum depletion.). Complexity. and. Collapse: Societies. in. Energy. Deficit. The five strategies humans have adopted for capturing increasing amounts of ...
... Chapter 3, the drawdown of fossil fuels is itself subject to the law of diminishing returns. Early investments in drilling for oil yielded fabulous returns. But most of the largest and most productive oil fields were discovered within a ...
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 |