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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... region of the planet. Americans were encouraged through advertising to buy private automobiles in order to take advantage of these energy resources, and they did so at a rate unparalleled in the industrialized world. By mid-century ...
... regions of the planet. By contrast, fossil-fueled industrialism has swept the world in a mere two hundred years. Historians are accustomed to speaking of the “Old Stone Age,” the “New Stone Age,” the “Bronze Age,” or the “Iron Age” as a ...
... regions of the Americas dominated by Spain — namely Mexico and most of South America. In addition to pulling plows and carts, oxen, horses, and mules also provided power for machinery: at first, for grain mills; later, for pumps to ...
... region that, compared with China and the Islamic world, must be considered a cultural backwater. But this was the ... regions and had to be mined and transported. Thus, until the 13th century, it was largely ignored in favor of wood. As ...
... regions of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Global dependence on coal peaked in the early 20th century, when its contribution to the total world energy budget surpassed ninety percent. In the course of a hundred ...
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 |