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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... period, most of the power for pulling plows and carts was provided by oxen. Only during the 12th century did horses come to be used as draft animals in any great numbers, this shift being due to the invention and widespread adoption of ...
Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Richard Heinberg. during the same period, the growing of horse feed required one quarter of the total available cropland (90 million acres). Throughout the medieval period, human and animal ...
... period their use gradually increased with improvements in shipbuilding and navigational technology, so that, by the latter part of the 16th century, European ships were conveying an estimated 600,000 tons of cargo annually. Many ...
... period. While the manors of the early medieval period were almost entirely self-sufficient, so that money was required only for the purchase of imported luxury goods, a gradually increasing trade required ever larger quantities of ...
... period in Europe was a time of technological innovation, population growth, and energy-resource depletion within a region that, compared with China and the Islamic world, must be considered a cultural backwater. But this was the ...
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 |