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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... petroleum depletion.). Complexity. and. Collapse: Societies. in. Energy. Deficit. The five strategies humans have adopted for capturing increasing amounts of energy (takeover, tool use, specialization, scope enlargement, and drawdown) have ...
... petroleum. These energy resources proved to be especially valuable because they enabled the more intensive extraction and use of all other resources. When Europeans first arrived in the New World, there were already other humans present ...
... petroleum, few people, if any, yet realized that fact. However, the Europeans had spent many centuries making prior investments in tool making, and so the breakthrough to the production of Class D tools was for them merely the next step ...
... petroleum exporter. In the 20th century, while the old colonial powers (such as England, Spain, and Portugal) were reaping diminishing returns from their investments in conquest and while other aspiring colonial powers (Germany, Japan ...
... petroleum resources in the continental US peaked in the 1930s; the rate of extraction of those resources peaked in 1970. But the energy- based “American Way of Life” had to be maintained in order to avoid political and economic disaster ...
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 |