Peak everything : waking up to the century of declines /
Heinberg, Richard,
Peak everything : waking up to the century of declines / Waking up to the century of declines Richard Heinberg ; foreword by James Howard Kunstler. - xxvi, 213 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On technology, agriculture, and the arts -- 1. Tools with a life of their own -- 2. Fifty million farmers -- 3. (post- )Hydrocarbon aesthetics -- On nature's limits and the human condition -- 4. Five axioms of sustainability -- 5. Parrots and peoples -- 6. Population, resources, and human idealism -- The end of one era, the beginning of another -- 7. The psychology of peak oil and climate change -- 8. Bridging peak oil and climate change activism -- 9. Boomers' last chance? -- 10. A letter from the future -- 11. Talking ourselves to extinction.
"The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, human impacts on the environment increased dramatically... To adapt to this profoundly different world, we must begin now to make radical changes to our attitudes, behaviors and expectations. Now in paperback and featuring a foreword by James Howard Kunstler, Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature dictates our new limits."--Publisher's website.
0865716455 9780865716452
2010534787
Human ecology.
Social history--21st century
Sustainable agriculture.
Energy conservation.
GF41 / .H444 2007
304.2
Peak everything : waking up to the century of declines / Waking up to the century of declines Richard Heinberg ; foreword by James Howard Kunstler. - xxvi, 213 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On technology, agriculture, and the arts -- 1. Tools with a life of their own -- 2. Fifty million farmers -- 3. (post- )Hydrocarbon aesthetics -- On nature's limits and the human condition -- 4. Five axioms of sustainability -- 5. Parrots and peoples -- 6. Population, resources, and human idealism -- The end of one era, the beginning of another -- 7. The psychology of peak oil and climate change -- 8. Bridging peak oil and climate change activism -- 9. Boomers' last chance? -- 10. A letter from the future -- 11. Talking ourselves to extinction.
"The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, human impacts on the environment increased dramatically... To adapt to this profoundly different world, we must begin now to make radical changes to our attitudes, behaviors and expectations. Now in paperback and featuring a foreword by James Howard Kunstler, Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature dictates our new limits."--Publisher's website.
0865716455 9780865716452
2010534787
Human ecology.
Social history--21st century
Sustainable agriculture.
Energy conservation.
GF41 / .H444 2007
304.2