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The party's over : oil, war and the fate of industrial societies
- Title
- The party's over : oil, war and the fate of industrial societies / Richard Heinberg.
- Author
- Heinberg, Richard.
- Publication
- Gabriola, BC : New Society Publishers, ©2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HD9560.6 .H45 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 275 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Explores the political and economic impact of oil depletion, recommending a managed transition to a low-energy sustainable society and a global program of resource sharing in light of the imminent decline of world oil supplies.
- Subject
- Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects
- Petroleum reserves > Political aspects
- Renewable energy sources
- Renewable Energy
- Olie-industrie
- Oliemarkt
- Politieke aspecten
- Guerre
- Énergie renouvelable
- Approvisionnement énergétique
- Réserve de pétrole
- Industrie pétrolière
- Industrie énergétique
- Aspect politique
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-263) and index.
- Contents
- Energy, Nature and Society -- Energy and Earth: The Rules of the Game -- Energy in Ecosystems: Eating and Being Eaten -- Social Leveraging Strategies: How to Gain an Energy Subsidy -- Complexity and Collapse: Societies in Energy Deficit -- Applied Socio-Ecohistory: Explaining the American Success Story -- Party Time: The Historic Interval of Cheap, Abundant Energy -- Energy in Medieval Europe -- The Coal Revolution -- The Petroleum Miracle, Part I -- Electrifying the World -- The Petroleum Miracle, Part II -- Oil, Geopolitics, and the Global Economy: 1950-1980 -- 1980-2001: Lost Opportunities and the Prelude to Catastrophe -- Lights Out: Approaching the Historic Interval's End -- On to Mesopotamia -- The Ground Giving Way -- M. King Hubbert: Energy Visionary -- Hubbert's Legacy -- Zeroing In on the Date of Peak -- Hubbert's Critics: The Cornucopian Argument -- Who Is Right? Why Does It Matter? -- Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can the Party Continue? -- Natural Gas -- Coal -- Nuclear Power -- Wind -- Solar Power -- Hydrogen -- Hydroelectricity -- Geothermal Power -- Tides and Waves -- Biomass, Biodiesel, and Ethanol -- Fusion, Cold Fusion, and Free-Energy Devices -- Conservation: Efficiency and Curtailment -- A Banquet of Consequences -- The Economy -- Physical and Financial -- Transportation -- Food and Agriculture -- Heating and Cooling -- The Environment -- Public Health -- Information Storage, Processing, and Transmission -- National Politics and Social Movements -- The Geopolitics of Energy-Resource Competition.
- ISBN
- 0865714827
- 9780865714823
- LCCN
- 2003464856
- OCLC
- ocm51800487
- 51800487
- SCSB-1296357
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library