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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... energy. — Ludwig Boltzman (1886) Other factors remaining constant, culture ... resources in that process. The first section below includes information that ... ENERGY, NATURE AND SOCIETY.
... energy. All tools require energy for their use or manufacture — but that energy may come from human muscle power or some source external to the human body, such as animal muscle, wood fire, coal fire, or hydro-generated electricity ...
... energy resources: coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium. This strategy can only be pursued once societies are near the point of being able to invent, and produce in quantity, sophisticated Class D tools. Drawdown dramatically improved the ...
... is discussed less frequently than either pollution or global warming, though its ultimate implications for humankind may be even more dire. This is our increasing dependency on energy resources that are depleting within historically narrow.
Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg. dependency on energy resources that are depleting within historically narrow time frames. There are now somewhere between two and five billion humans alive who probably ...
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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 |