Introduction -- 1. Energy, nature, and society -- 2. Party time : the historic interval of cheap, abundant energy -- 3. Lights out : approaching the historic interval's end -- 4. Non-petroleum energy sources : can the party continue? -- 5. A banquet of consequences -- 6. Managing the collapse : strategies and recommendations -- Afterword to the revised edition
Summary
The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter was from medieval times. In The Party's Over, Richard Heinberg places this momentous transition in historical context, showing how industrialism arose from the harnessing of fossil fuels, how competition
