Author: Richard Heinberg
Edition: pb
ISBN: 9780865715295
Publisher: New Society
Release Date: 22/11/2005
306 pages

DESCRIPTION:
The world is about to run out of "cheap" oil. In this fascinating new book, Heinberg places this momentous transition in historical context, showing how industrialism arose from the harnessing of fossil fuels, how competition to control access to oil shaped the geopolitics of the 20th century, and how contention for dwindling energy resources in this new century will lead to resource wars in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South America. He describes the likely impacts of oil depletion and all of the energy alternatives. A riveting wake up call, and a critical tool for understanding and influencing current US foreign policy. Now in a new, revised and updated edition.