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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Praise -- Title Page -- Rights Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Ten Years After -- Chapter 2: The Gross Society -- Chapter 3: Visualize Gasoline -- Chapter 4: The Climate PR Puzzle -- Chapter 5: The Purposely Confusing World of Energy Politics -- Chapter 6: The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism-and the Birth of a Happy Alternative -- Chapter 7: Fingers in the Dike -- Chapter 8: Your Post-Petroleum Future (a commencement address) -- Chapter 9: The Fight of the Century -- Chapter 10: The Anthropocene: It's Not All About Us -- Chapter 11: Conflict in the Era of Economic Decline -- Chapter 12: All Roads Lead Local -- Chapter 13: Our Evanescent Culture-and the Awesome Duty of Librarians -- Chapter 14: Our Cooperative Darwinian Moment -- Chapter 15: Want to Change the World? Read This First -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- A Guide to Responsible Digital Reading -- Books to Build a New Society -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy "plug-and-play" solution, author Richard Heinberg suggests instead that we are in for a wild ride; a "civilization reboot" on a scale similar to the agricultural and industrial revolutions. Afterburn consists of fifteen essays exploring various aspects of the twenty-first century migration away from fossil fuels including: --Short-term political and economic factors that impede broad-scale, organized efforts to adapt --The origin of longer-term trends (such as consumerism), that have created a way of life that seems "normal" to most Americans, but is actually unprecedented, highly fragile, and unsustainable --Potential opportunities and sources of conflict that are likely to emerge From the inevitability and desirability of more locally organized economies to the urgent need to preserve our recent cultural achievements and the futility of pursuing economic growth above all, Afterburn offers cutting-edge perspectives and insights that challenge conventional thinking about our present, our future, and the choices in our hands. --Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
A collection of 15 essays written in the years 2011-2014 and previously published on the websites resilience.org, commondreams.org, and earthisland.org, and in Orion magazine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Social ecology.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Economic development -- Social aspects.
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Social change.
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Social Environment
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human ecology.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects.
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Economic development -- Social aspects.
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Social change.
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Social ecology.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781550925845 |
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1550925849 |
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0865717885 |
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9780865717886 |
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