post-oil Concepts

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge · 2 Jun 2021 · 693pp · 169,849 words

-states that are dependent on the accident of geography rather than the ingenuity of their people. They will surely revert to poverty in the coming post-oil age unless they change their habits. A raft of cross-country surveys reinforces this impression. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has repeatedly demonstrated

Player One

by Douglas Coupland · 30 Jun 2011

his eyes set on Rachel, and Rachel seems to have hers set on Rick. Luke’s embezzled twenty grand is most likely worthless in a post-oil economy, so his Darwinian advantage over Rick is gone. But Luke’s need to stay alive overpowers all, even his need to reproduce. And before

Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier · 6 May 2013 · 510pp · 120,048 words

? Seems like a significant risk. But somebody somewhere would find the motivation. Maybe a low-population but capital-rich Persian Gulf nation worried about the post-oil future would fund gigantic automated factories to undercut China in the production of consumer electronics. It might even happen in the United States, which has

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

by Daniel Gordis · 17 Oct 2016 · 632pp · 171,827 words

desperately needed. France’s support of the Arab state by supplying military equipment surprised few, but Israelis were stunned that Britain—which, like much of post-oil-boycott Europe, was abandoning Israel and moving toward the Arabs—had imposed an embargo on military aid to the region. When Britain finally broke its

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell · 19 Jul 2021 · 460pp · 130,820 words

IPO,” Wall Street Journal, Feb. 21, 2017. “Undoubtedly, it will be the largest fund”: John Micklethwait et al., “Saudi Arabia Plans $2 Trillion Megafund for Post-oil Era: Deputy Crown Prince,” Bloomberg News, April 1, 2016. largest international investment: Douglas MacMillan, “Uber Raises $3.5 Billion from Saudi Fund,” Wall Street Journal

The Oil Age Is Over: What to Expect as the World Runs Out of Cheap Oil, 2005-2050

by Matt Savinar · 2 Jan 2004 · 127pp · 51,083 words

make massive changes over the course of decades or centuries, not 5-15 years. When faced with sudden change, complex societies tend to collapse. The post-oil collapse of North Korea, for example, while not completely analogous to countries such as the US, shows us what happens when a complex, industrialized, nation

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North Korea found itself in 1990. With worldwide oil shortages on the horizon, there is no one we can appeal to for more oil. The post-oil collapse of North Korea should serve as a warning to anyone who dismisses the issue of oil depletion with a cavalier, "I'm not worried

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to die. We cannot stop it. But we may be able to minimize the amount of suffering while maximizing the chances of building a successful post-oil civilization if we implement appropriate public policies such as: 102 The Oil Age is Over A. Civilized Measures to Support Population Reduction The primary cause

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, the anti-Nazi resistance of the 1940s. Usually, the people we admire are persons who faced great challenges and met them head-on. Building a post-oil civilization will likely be the greatest challenge in the history of the world. This also makes it the greatest opportunity in the history of the

What's Next?: Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy

by David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale · 23 May 2011 · 397pp · 112,034 words

what has been learned since the financial crisis of 2008–2009 regarding the longer-term market determinants. We shall begin with the move toward a post-oil economy that some think could be imposed by geological limits—“peak oil” and the assumed twilight in the desert1—or by concerns for climate change

Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism

by Richard Brooks · 23 Apr 2018 · 398pp · 105,917 words

was in the grip of ‘Chicago School’ economics. First came the tough medicine of monetarism, restricting the money supply to cure the inflation of the post-oil-crisis 1970s in line with the theories of economists such as Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago. Then came the equally transformative prescription of

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future

by Gretchen Bakke · 25 Jul 2016 · 433pp · 127,171 words

solar architecture (craftsman) homes are a result of this. Nevertheless the reality of this issue didn’t hit home until 1973. Daniel A. Barber, “The Post-Oil Architectural Imaginary in the 1950s,” public lecture, “Lines and Nodes: Media, Infrastructure, and Aesthetics,” at New York University’s Media, Culture, and Communication symposium, 2014