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Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
What do subprime mortgages, Atlantic salmon dinners, SUVs and globalization have in common?
They all depend on cheap oil. And in a world of dwindling oil supplies and steadily mounting demand around the world, there is no such thing as cheap oil. |
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Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future
Carbon Shift brings together six of Canada’s world-class experts to explore the question of where we stand now, and where we might be headed. It explores the economics, the geology, the politics, and the science of the predicament... |
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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines by Richard Heinberg
Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. This latest book from Richard Heinberg, author of three of the most important books on Peak Oil... |
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Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care) by William Marsden
A bestselling investigative journalist takes a tour of the Alberta oil and gas industry, revealing how Canada’s richest province is squandering our chance for a sustainable future. |
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The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon
"Thomas Homer-Dixon [is] one of the best-informed and most brilliant writers on global affairs today."
- Dylan Evans, The Guardian |
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Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World by Richard Heinberg
"Powerdown provides a visionary response to the coming energy famine, a clarion call to cooperative solutions based on the conviction that realism must trump self-delusion in matters of cultural survival." - William E. Rees, PhD. |
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Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent by Andrew Nikiforuk
A critical exposé of the open-pit mines that have made Canada one of the worst environmental offenders on earth.
While the world goes green, Canada has elected to go black into the tar. |
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Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change by Pat Murphy
"Read it, send copies to your city council members, roll up your sleeves and join in. It's the only decent future we have."
– David Orr, author of Ecological Literacy and Earth in Mind.
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Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy
Twilight in the Desert reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In this exhaustively researched book... |
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Pumped: Everyone's Guide to the Oilpatch by Andrew Nikiforuk and David Finch
Seasoned petroleum historian David Finch engages and entertains as he acquaints us with the basic vocabulary and mechanics of Canada's oil industry right through its most complex issues. |
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The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg
"Richard Heinberg has distilled complex facts, histories, and events into a readable overview of the energy systems that keep today's mass society running. The result is jarring... |
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Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
In this follow up to his previous book on Hubbert's Peak/Peak Oil, Deffeyes gives us some engrossing info on such subjects as the Alberta tar sands, the Green River oil shale and nuclear power. |
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Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
This book . . . should be read . . . by all politicians, by all students, no matter what their discipline, and indeed by anyone concerned about their grandchildren's welfare. Reading Hubbert's Peak is the intellectual equivalent of bungee jumping. |
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