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KUNSTLER, JAMES HOWARD (2006): The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

KUNSTLER, JAMES HOWARD (2006): The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is about to radically change life as we know it, and much sooner than we think. The Long Emergency tells us just what to expect after the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing us for economic, political, and social changes of an unimaginable scale. The Long Emergency brings new urgency to the critical issues that will shape our future.

Genero: Libros
Subjects: 2006, colapso, consecuencias del peak oil, consecuencias económicas, consecuencias políticas, consecuencias sociales, english, peak oil
GRANT, LINDSEY (2005): The Collapsing Bubble: Growth And Fossil Energy

GRANT, LINDSEY (2005): The Collapsing Bubble: Growth And Fossil Energy

Contending that the energy debate should not be framed as «What energy sources will be available to replace fossil fuels?» but rather as «What population can be supported at a decent standard by the energy sources that will be available after the transition from fossil fuels?» Grant argues that we can create a more harmonious balance with the rest of the biosphere—but at much lower population levels with less consumptive habits.

Lindsey Grant is a retired Foreign Service Officer; he was a China specialist and served as Director of the Office of Asian Communist Affairs, National Security Council staff member, and Department of State policy Planning staff member. As Deputy Secretary of State for Environmental and Population Affairs, he was Department of State coordinator for the Global 2000 Report to the President, Chairman of the interagency committee on Int’l Environmental Committee and US member of the UN ECE Committee of Experts on the Environment. His books include: Too Many People, Juggernaut, The Horseman and the Bureaucrat, Elephants in Volkswagen, How Many Americans?

Genero: Libros
Subjects: 2005, colapso, colapso de la población, decrecimiento, diagnóstico, eeuu, english, fin del crecimiento, peak oil, población, propuestas, Seven Locks Press, transición pospetróleo
STRAHAN, DAVID (2007): The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man

STRAHAN, DAVID (2007): The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man

Draining the lifeblood of industrial civilization, the terminal decline of oil and gas production will spark a crisis far more dangerous than international terrorism, and just as urgent as climate change. World leaders know it, so why aren’t they telling? The last oil shock is the secret behind the crises in Iraq and Iran, the reason your gas bill is going through the roof, the basis of a secret deal cooked up in Texas between George Bush and Tony Blair, the cause of an imminent and unprecedented economic collapse, and the reason you may soon be kissing your car keys and boarding pass goodbye. David Strahan explains how we reached this critical state, how the silence of governments, oil companies and environmentalists conspires to keep the public in the dark, what it means for energy policy, and what you can do to protect yourself and your family from the ravages of the last oil shock.

Genero: Libros
Subjects: 2007, colapso, consecuencias del peak oil, consecuencias económicas, english, peak oil
ORLOV, DMITRY (2008): Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects

ORLOV, DMITRY (2008): Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects

In the waning days of the American empire, we find ourselves mired in crises, with multiple foreign-policy messes and our economy in steep decline. These trends mirror the experience of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s. Reinventing Collapse examines the circumstances of the USSR’s demise and offers insights into how we might prepare for coming events here in the US: (1) Mitigation—alleviating the impact of the coming upheaval; (2) Adaptation—adjusting to the reality of changed conditions; (3) Opportunity—flourishing after the collapse.

Página del autor en la Wikipedia.

Genero: Libros
Subjects: 2008, colapso, consecuencias del peak oil, consecuencias económicas, consecuencias políticas, consecuencias sociales, eeuu, peak oil, previsiones, rusia, transición pospetróleo, urss
RUPPERT, MICHAEL C. (2009): Confronting Collapse. The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World

RUPPERT, MICHAEL C. (2009): Confronting Collapse. The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World

In Confronting Collapse, Mike Ruppert exposes the lies that have been told about energy to protect corporate profits and a collapsing monetary system—the latter of which now threatens all of industrial civilization. The book says what an American president cannot say: that energy and money (the economy) are Siamese twins—joined so closely that they cannot be dealt with as separate policies. If energy gets sick, money must be treated simultaneously, and vice versa. But the present monetary regime is so broken that separating the money-energy twins in a way that saves and preserves life cannot take place without killing one or both.

Of the two, energy is more important to human life. Energy can do work. Energy grows food and pumps water. Energy moves goods and services. Energy sustains life. Money is useless without energy. Unfortunately, our current best energy source—petroleum—is depleting faster than we can transition to other sources. There is now no combination of alternative energies that we can move to quickly enough to sustain the complex, globalized human civilization that was built using cheap, plentiful oil.

Genero: Libros
Subjects: 2009, colapso, diagnóstico, energía, english, peak oil, petróleo
SCARROW, ALEX (2008): Last Night

SCARROW, ALEX (2008): Last Night

Web oficial del autor: http://www.alexscarrow.com

It seems to be a very normal Monday morning. But in the space of only a few days, the world’s oil supplies have been severed and at a horrifying pace things begin to unravel everywhere. And this is no natural disaster: someone is behind this.

Jenny is stuck in Manchester, fighting desperately against the rising chaos to get back to London, where her children are marooned as events begin to spiral out of control: riots, raging fires, looting, rape and murder. In the space of a week, London is transformed into a lawless and anarchic vision of hell.

Jenny’s estranged husband, oil engineer Andy Sutherland, is stranded in Iraq with a company of British soldiers, desperate to find a way home to his family, trapped as transport links and the very infrastructure of daily life begin to collapse around him.

And against all this, a mysterious man is tracking Andy’s family. He’ll silence anyone who might be able to reveal the identities of those behind this global disaster. It seems that the same people who now have a stranglehold on the future of civilisation have flexed their muscles before, at other significant tipping points in history, and they are prepared to do anything to keep their secret – and their power – safe.

Genero: Libros, Novelas
Subjects: 2008, colapso, english, ficción, Orion