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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... See More
Business & Money
One of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016 The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Impeccably researched and masterfully written, this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff. -- Dahr Jamail, author, The End of Ice Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has... See More
Science & Math
The rapid spread of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") has temporarily boosted US natural gas and oil production... and sparked a massive environmental backlash in communities across the country. The fossil fuel industry is... See More
Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost entirely on coal-generated electricity. Coal... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This book is an accessible, engaging tool to help people enrich their lives through the observance of ancient, astronomically determined Earth festivals. It assists us to recover an experience that had deep meaning for the... See More
Business & Money
The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, human impacts on the environment increased dramatically. The 21st century... See More
History
If the US continues with current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is... See More
Essential, visionary essays about our post-carbon future Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but... See More
Since oil is the primary fuel of global industrial civilization, its imminent depletion is a problem that will have a profound impact on every aspect of modern life. With-out international agreement on how to manage the... See More
Business & Money
In the 20th century, cheap and abundant energy brought previously unimaginable advances in health, wealth, and technology, and fed an explosion in population and consumption. But this growth came at an incredible cost... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In this transcript from the KunstlerCast podcast, James Howard Kunstler speaks to Richard Heinberg about his newest book, "The End of Growth." Topics of discussion include: peak oil, financial dysfunction, political... See More
Business & Money
This is updated, supplemental text for Richard Heinberg's 'The End of Growth'. The new material reflects on the rapidly shifting global economic scenarios, bringing the book up to date as of June 2012. See More
Science & MathThe collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.? It is high time that the discussion of peak oil includes a solution to... See More