Peak Everything
Title | Peak Everything PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Heinberg |
Publisher | New Society Publishers |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2010-10-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0865716455 |
Transitioning gracefully from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty.
Peeking at Peak Oil
Title | Peeking at Peak Oil PDF eBook |
Author | Kjell Aleklett |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2012-05-19 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1461434246 |
The term “Peak Oil” was born in January 2001 when Colin Campbell formed the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO). Now, Peak Oil is used thousands of times a day by journalists, politicians, industry leaders, economists, scientists and countless others around the globe. Peak Oil is not the end of oil but it tells us the end is in sight. Anyone interested in food production, economic growth, climate change or global security needs to understand this new reality. In Peeking at Peak Oil Professor Kjell Aleklett, President of ASPO International and head of the world’s leading research group on Peak Oil, describes the decade-long journey of Peak Oil from extremist fringe theory to today’s accepted fact: Global oil production is entering terminal decline. He explains everything you need to know about Peak Oil and its world-changing consequences from an insider’s perspective. In simple steps, Kjell tells us how oil is formed, discovered and produced. He uses science to reveal the errors and deceit of national and international oil authorities, companies and governments too terrified to admit the truth. He describes his personal involvement in the intrigues of the past decade. What happens when a handful of giant oil fields containing two thirds of our planet’s oil become depleted? Will major oil consumers such as the EU and US face rationing within a decade? Will oil producing nations conserve their own oil when they realize that no one can export oil to them in the future? Does Peak Oil mean Peak Economic Growth? If you want to know the real story about energy today and what the future has in store, then you need to be “Peeking at Peak Oil”.
Everything Flows
Title | Everything Flows PDF eBook |
Author | Vasily Grossman |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2010-05-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1590173899 |
A New York Review Books Original Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, Ivan’s story is only one among many. Thus we also hear about Ivan’s cousin, Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, and Pinegin, the informer who got Ivan sent to the camps. Then a brilliant short play interrupts the narrative: a series of informers steps forward, each making excuses for the inexcusable things that he did—inexcusable and yet, the informers plead, in Stalinist Russia understandable, almost unavoidable. And at the core of the book, we find the story of Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan’s lover, who tells about her eager involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932–33, which led to the deaths of three to five million Ukrainian peasants. Here Everything Flows attains an unbearable lucidity comparable to the last cantos of Dante’s Inferno.
Hubbert's Peak
Title | Hubbert's Peak PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth S. Deffeyes |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2008-09-29 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1400829070 |
In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim prediction: world oil production would reach a peak within the next decade--and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. Deffeyes's claim echoed the work of geophysicist M. King Hubbert, who in 1956 predicted that U.S. oil production would reach its highest level in the early 1970s. Though roundly criticized by oil experts and economists, Hubbert's prediction came true in 1970. In this updated edition of Hubbert's Peak, Deffeyes explains the crisis that few now deny we are headed toward. Using geology and economics, he shows how everything from the rising price of groceries to the subprime mortgage crisis has been exacerbated by the shrinking supply--and growing price--of oil. Although there is no easy solution to these problems, Deffeyes argues that the first step is understanding the trouble that we are in.
Swan Peak
Title | Swan Peak PDF eBook |
Author | James Lee Burke |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 2009-05-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1416548548 |
The latest tale featuring the popular and flawed detective Dave Robicheaux takes him from the bayous of Louisiana's New Iberia Parish to the wild mountains of Montana.
Confronting Collapse
Title | Confronting Collapse PDF eBook |
Author | Michael C. Ruppert |
Publisher | Chelsea Green Publishing |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2009-12-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1603582991 |
The book that inspired the movie Collapse. The world is running short of energy-especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases, threaten industrialized civilization, the global economy, and our entire way of life. In Confronting Collapse, author Michael C. Ruppert, a former LAPD narcotics officer turned investigative journalist, details the intricate connections between money and energy, including the ways in which oil shortages and price spikes triggered the economic crash that began in September 2008. Given the 96 percent correlation between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions and the unlikelihood of economic growth without a spike in energy use, Ruppert argues that we are not, in fact, on the verge of economic recovery, but on the verge of complete collapse. Ruppert's truth is not merely inconvenient. It is utterly devastating. But there is still hope. Ruppert outlines a 25-point plan of action, including the creation of a second strategic petroleum reserve for the use of state and local governments, the immediate implementation of a national Feed-in Tariff mandating that electric utilities pay 3 percent above market rates for all surplus electricity generated from renewable sources, a thorough assessment of soil conditions nationwide, and an emergency action plan for soil restoration and sustainable agriculture.
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Title | To All the Boys I've Loved Before PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Han |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2024-03-19 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1665951648 |
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