The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
A Economics, Peak Oil, Science book. This book is definitely worth reading, it has some important information. It also has...
"The world is about to change dramatically and forever as the 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 era as the latter was from medieval times." "The Party's Over deals head-on with this imminent decline of cheap oil. It shows how oil and war have always been closely related for the past century and how competition to control oil supplies is likely to lead to...
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This book is definitely worth reading, it has some important information. It also has a few flaws, but they don't detract from what the book has to offer.Offers a very helpful perspective on the short period of human history that oil has been available, what the availability of abundant and cheap energy has meant, and where we are on... The only book I have ever reached the end of, then turned around and started over from the beginning, it is an eye-opening exposition of Peak Oil, the observation that the world will soon enter a dire period of declining oil production. While he does wax toward hyperbole and some impractical social arrangements near the end, the first... As a daily newspaper journalist I once attempted to research and write a Front Page story detailing the problems associated with Peak Oil. It was part of my intellectual growth, I suppose, in that I was awakening to energy issues and beginning to incorporate them into my knowledge of urban planning and transportation issues.I remember...