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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... fuel their life processes. In most cells, this is accomplished through aerobic respiration, a process with a net chemical change opposite that of photosynthesis: Some decomposers get energy through anaerobic respiration, or fermentation ...
... fuels. It is now believed that most oil comes from a few brief epochs of extreme global warming over quite short spans of geological time. The process began long ago and today yields fuels — chemically stored sunlight — that are energy ...
... fuel-fed industrialism could eventually be spread to all. This expectation led in turn to a partial relaxation of the class-based social tensions that had plagued complex societies since their beginnings. Americans, more than the people ...
... the first drawback of fossil fuel use to. Figure 1. World oil production from 1600 to 2200, history and projection, in millions of barrels per year (Source: C. J. Campbell) Figure 2. World population from 1600 to 2200, history and.
... fuel use to make itself apparent. Of course, pollution was hardly unknown before fossil fuels — it was apparent in the smoke of wood fires blackening winter skies over medieval cities, the horse manure clogging streets in 19th -century ...
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 |