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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 twentieth century and how contention for dwindling energy resources in the twenty-first 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 United States-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.
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Sustainable development, Petroleum industry and trade, Petroleum reserves, Nonfiction, Renewable energy sources, Political aspects, History, Management of land & natural resources, Petroleum & oil industries, Sustainability, History: American, Politics / Current Events, United States - 20th Century, USA, Environmental Conservation & Protection - General, General, Real Estate - General, History / United States / 20th Century, War and society, Oil industries, Petroleum conservation, Petroleum industry and trade, political aspectsShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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The Party's Over
2009, New Society Publishers
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The Party\'s Over
September 8, 2006, Arab Scientific Publishers
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The Party's Over: Oil, War And The Fate Of Industrial Societies
July 13, 2005, New Society Publishers
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The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
March 2003, New Society Publishers
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The party's over: oil, war and the fate of industrial societies
2003, Clairview, Clairview Books
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Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies
April 2003, Tandem Library
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0613920899 9780613920896
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