peak everything – Richard Heinberg
Posted by disciv on 11 Jan 2008 at 05:28 pm | Tagged as: peak oil, useful media
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PEAK EVERYTHING Author – Richard Heinberg The latest of Heinberg’s books chronicling the depletion of not only our carbon based resources but loads of other important commodities too. easy to read and authoritative. £ 11.99 Click here to view full book details on eco-logic books website |
Other books by Richard Heinberg include:
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THE PARTY’S OVER Author – R. Heinberg Another peak oilers’ favourite. Substatially revised and subtitled Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. Heinberg has written several books on the topic – this is his most pressing and strident… £ 10.95 Click here to view full book details on eco-logic books website |
Although the title, The Party’s Over, implies that civilization’s Oil Age has been a party (tell this to the indigenous cultures of the world, the polar bears or any of the 100+ species being driven to extinction EVERY DAY, people in any country where useful resources have been discovered, or even the poorer sectors of society in the West) this is a pretty good introduction to the concept of peak oil. If you are new to the concept, read this book, but bear in mind that although oil has enabled humans to manufacture, trade and acquire more ‘stuff’, at what cost to our landbases, bodies, souls and freedoms? Civilisation’s discovery of petrochemicals is akin to a three year old child discovering a flamethrower in the garage!
