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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... wind turbine, and all electrical devices. These tools and tool systems are the foundation of modern industrial societies —in fact, they define them. This scheme of classification emphasizes the cumulative nature of technological and ...
... wind. Despite the fact that the human engine is capable of generating comparatively little power, much of the land in Europe — as well as in China — was tilled directly by humans using a hoe or spade, without the help of an animal ...
... wind power for transportation by means of sails. Sailing ships already had a long history throughout the Mediterranean as well as in China; during the medieval period their use gradually increased with improvements in shipbuilding and ...
... wind as well as on human and animal power — relied on resources that were renewable but not inexhaustible. Oak forests could regenerate themselves, though that took time. But trees were being cut faster than they could regrow, and the ...
... wind power. Beginning in the 1840s, steam power began to be applied to shipping; by the 1860s, new developments, such as the steel high-pressure boiler and the steel hull, enabled a typical steamship to transport three times as much ...
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 |