Peak Everything: Waking up to the Century of Declines by Richard Heinberg
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- Pub. Date: September 2007
- 224pp
- Sales Rank: 103,638
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 2007
- Publisher: New Society Publishers
- Format: Paperback, 224pp
- Sales Rank: 103,638
- ISBN-13: 9780865715981
- ISBN: 086571598X
Synopsis
The twentieth century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption, and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, the impact of humans on the environment increased dramatically.
The twenty-first century ushered in an era of declines, in a number of crucial parameters:
- Global oil, natural gas, and coal extraction
- Yearly grain harvests
- Climate stability
- Population
- Economic growth
- Fresh water
- Minerals and ores, such as copper and platinum
To adapt to this profoundly different world, we must begin now to make radical changes to our attitudes, behaviors, and expectations.
Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological, and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. This latest book from Richard Heinberg, author of three of the most important books on Peak Oil, touches on the most important aspects of the human condition at this unique moment in time.
A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book tells how we might make the transition from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty with grace and satisfaction, while preserving the best of our collective achievements. A must-read for individuals, business leaders, and policymakers who are serious about effecting real change.
Richard Heinberg is a journalist, lecturer, and the author of seven books, including The Party's Over, Powerdown, and The Oil Depletion Protocol.He is one of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators.
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Biography
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.
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Peak Everything: Waking up to the Century of Declinesby Anonymous
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February 12, 2008: I think Mr. Heinberg threw together anything he's written lately to create a hodgepodge of a book. I loved that film also, but what do the parrots of Telegraph Hill have to do with peak everything? His aesthetic judgments are dubious. I love the 'Arts and Crafts' style objects also, but there is no reason to think that the products of a return to handcrafts would resemble them. The first creations would likely be strictly utilitarian. As people develop more skill and have more leisure, their creations are as likely to be colorful and ornate as spare and elegant. Think Guatemalan busses, think New York City graffiti, we're talking popular art here. The result will quite likely not be to Mr. Heinberg's refined taste. I do not share his professed disdain for the products of modern industrial design, and I love indigenous and 'outsider art', as well. I think the entire discussion is pretty much irrelevant to 'peak everything'.
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