The party's over : oil, war and the fate of industrial societies

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    • Heinberg, Richard

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The party's over : oil, war and the fate of industrial societies

Richard Heinberg

New Society, c2005

2nd ed., rev. and updated

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index

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内容説明

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. 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 US - 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 book is a riveting wake-up call for humankind as the oil era winds down, and a critical tool for understanding and influencing current US foreign policy.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Energy, Nature and Society
  • Party Time: The Historic Interval of Cheap, Abundant Energy
  • Lights Out: Approaching the Historic Interval's End
  • Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can the Party Continue?
  • A Banquet of Consequences
  • Managing the Collapse: Strategies and Recommendations
  • Index.

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