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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... Problem Solving, and Sustainable Societies”) This process of collapse is somewhat analogous to the phenomenon of population overshoot and die-off within a colonized ecosystem; indeed, the population of the city of Rome declined from ...
... problem solving that was sustainable for several generations. 26 This does not mean, however, that industrial civilization is immune to the law of diminishing returns. Tainter cites statistics indicating that already there have been ...
... problems through some technical or social innovation, people often find that their new strategy has liberated more energy than was actually needed. Then, in developing ways to fully implement the new strategy and to take advantage of a ...
... problem: that of transporting the coal from the depths of mines to rivers or ports. Typically, balks of wood were thrown down to facilitate the movement of coal-bearing wagons. In 1767, Richard Reynolds constructed a trail of cast-iron ...
... widely available as a cheap and superior lubricant and, when refined into kerosene, as lamp fuel. The problems of whale-oil depletion and machine lubrication had been solved. But, of course, oil soon would The Petroleum Miracle, Part I.
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 |