The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies - Softcover

Heinberg, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1902636457 ISBN 13: 9781902636450

Publisher: Clairview Books, 2001

Synopsis

Without oil, what would you do? How would you travel? How would you eat? What would everyday life be like?

The world is about to change dramatically and permenantly as a result of oil depletion. Within the next few years, the global production of oil will peak. Thereafter, even with a switch to alternative energy sources, industrial societies will have less energy available to do all the things essential to their survival. We are entering a new era as different from the industrial one as the latter was from mediaeval times.

The Party’s Over deals head-on with the imminent decline of cheap oil. It shows how oil and war have been closely related for the the past century, and how competition to control oil supplies is likely to lead to new resource wars in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South America. Tracing the crucial role of fossil fuels in the rise of industrialism, Heinberg discusses the degree to which energy alternatives can compensate for oil, and recommends:

* a managed transition to a slower-paced, low-energy, sustainable society in the future;
* a global programme of resource conservation and sharing implemented by the US - the world’s foremost oil consumer and the most mightily armed nation in world history - in concert with other countries; and
* realistic ways for families, communities, nations, and the world to prepare for the coming crisis.

A riveting wake-up call that does for oil depletion what Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did for the issue of chemical pollution - i.e. raising to consciousness a previously ignored global problem of immense proportions - The Party’s Over is essential reading for all those concerned with the future of modern life as we know it.

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Review:

‘If societies a century from now have managed to learn how to live sustainably, it may be at least partly because the advice in this timely book was heeded.’ -- Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

‘The Party’s Over is the book we need to reorient ourselves for a realistic future.’ -- Chellis Glendinning, Ph.D., author of When Technology Wounds

About the Author:

Richard Heinberg is widely acknowledged as one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators. A journalist, educator, editor, lecturer, and a Core Faculty member of New College of California where he teaches a program on "Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community, he is the author of six previous books including The Party's Over and Powerdown.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clairview Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1902636457
• ISBN 13: 9781902636450
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288