Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalisation - Softcover

Rubin, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753519631 ISBN 13: 9780753519639

Publisher: Virgin Books, 2010

Synopsis

Soaring oil prices caused four out of the last five recessions. They caused the current recession. And they will cause the next one.

Expensive oil costs us more than just money. It costs jobs, homes and in the long run it is going to radically alter the way we live. For if cheap oil is the fuel that keeps the machinery of globalisation in motion, then expensive oil has the same effect as pouring diesel into an unleaded tank. Everything stalls; the engine fails. Oil prices will rise again in the coming years, as this utterly convincing insight into our collective future argues. And as oil prices fluctuate wildly, our society will change dramatically, and for good. From the homes we live in and the cars we drive to the food we eat and the places we work, our daily lives and global economy are going to be transformed. But while this new, smaller world will take some getting used to, it will also open our eyes to a more localised and ultimately more liveable way of life.

About this title

Review:

"Original, engaging and persuasive ... a thought-provoking introduction to a future that, sooner or later, the world is inevitably going to enter." (Financial Times)

Book Description:

A bold and utterly convincing book, described by the Financial Times as 'Original, engaging and persuasive ... a thought-provoking introduction to a future that, sooner or later, the world is inevitably going to enter.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Virgin Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0753519631
• ISBN 13: 9780753519639
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304