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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... millions of years. With the advent of the industrial revolution, as these stores of carbon began to be mined and ... million. By 1998, that amount had increased to 360 ppm and was projected to increase to 560 ppm by the middle of the ...
... million inhabitants in 100 AD to about 40,000 in 1100 AD. Tainter's discussion of the Western Chou Empire, the Harappan Civilization, Mesopotamia, the Egyptian Old Kingdom, the Hittite Empire, the Classic Mayan civilization, and others ...
... millions, in fact; in some regions over 90 percent of the population — quickly succumbed to colonists' diseases, such as smallpox, measles, and influenza. These diseases were caused by microorganisms that had become integrated into the ...
... millions of skilled and highly motivated immigrants from Europe — though many were simply driven out by overcrowding at home. Nor can one deny the role of extraordinary personalities: inventors, politicians, military leaders, and ...
... and quail. Human settlements were small, seldom numbering more than a few hundred people; the total population of Europe probably — exact figures are not known — did not exceed 25 million (compared to Energy in Medieval Europe.
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 |