by Meghan Daum · 29 Mar 2015 · 214pp · 71,585 words
fully conscious lives than those brainless docile hordes helplessly breeding at the dictates of their DNA. They cite the imminent threats of overpopulation, global warming, peak oil, and, don’t let’s forget, nuclear war, still very much on the table—all of which are perfectly valid and persuasive reasons for not
by Edward Snowden · 16 Sep 2019 · 324pp · 106,699 words
over into extravagance, with a massive influx of the superrich—most of them from the Gulf states, many of them Saudi—enjoying the profits of peak oil prices on the cusp of the global financial crisis. These royal types were booking whole floors of five-star grand hotels and buying out the
by Victor Davis Hanson · 15 Nov 2021 · 458pp · 132,912 words
Persian Gulf—their imported fuel or the safety of their often-used commercial sea lanes. There is no such thing as having years ago reached “peak oil”—the point at which Americans have drawn more oil from their ground than is left beneath it—and there will not be at least for
by David McRaney · 20 Sep 2011 · 270pp · 83,506 words
things become the new normal, and you will spring into action. Normalcy bias can be scaled up to larger events as well. Global climate change, peak oil, obesity epidemics, and stock market crashes are good examples of larger, more complex events in which people fail to act because it is difficult to
by Benjamin Kunkel · 11 Mar 2014 · 142pp · 45,733 words
resources or in the exhaustion of productivity gains as the share of manufacturing in the world economy shrinks and that of services expands. Of course, peak oil or soil exhaustion might easily coincide with faltering productivity. Harvey doesn’t spell out why growth must have a stop, and the outlines of an
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by ecological dread. So it should be added that full employment wouldn’t win us much unless accompanied by the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, peak oil mitigation, and the conservation of forests, topsoil, fisheries, and so on. Full employment and ecological sustainability might even complement one another, since full employment on
by Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer · 14 Apr 2013 · 351pp · 93,982 words
wealth redistribution, social security, environmental regulation, farm subsidies, and development aid. However, it fails to react in a timely manner to global challenges such as peak oil, climate change, resource scarcity, and changing demographics. Over time, response mechanisms such as farm subsidies or subsidies for ethanol-based biofuel become part of the
by Mark Stevenson · 4 Dec 2010 · 379pp · 108,129 words
, for instance, imported fifty-seven per cent of its oil in 2008. As reserves dwindle (and it’s pretty much accepted that we will reach ‘peak oil’ at some point in the next generation), the opportunity for conflict is obvious. And beyond the possibility of making any country which successfully adopts these
by Eugene W. Holland · 1 Jan 2009 · 265pp · 15,515 words
far less apocalyptic in tone, Transitions, too, constitutes a response to what it considers the crisis of modern civilization: in this case, the imminence of peak oil and potentially catastrophic climate change, aggravated more recently by the financial collapse of 2008 and the general failure of the economic model of perpetual growth
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not to command or even coordinate action but simply to share examples of and information about fostering community resilience in the face of climate change, peak oil, and the inevitability of energy descent. Although the means it employs are entirely peaceful, in contrast to those of The Coming Insurrection, the Transitions Network
by Pistono, Federico · 14 Oct 2012 · 245pp · 64,288 words
pointed out, we, as a society, are like children asking their parents for a pony. We have not learned to take care of our gerbil (peak oil, environmental degradation), yet we are asking for a pony (fusion or whatever supposedly infinite supply of energy we have in mind, space colonisation, infinite growth
by Samanth Subramanian · 27 Apr 2020
their ethics. But Haldane didn’t remain noncommittal about the value of science itself. Daedalus is known for many things—including its smart predictions about peak oil, humankind’s switch to wind and solar, the hydrogen fuel cell, and semi-ectogenetic test-tube babies. But it is, foremost, a manifesto for society
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