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1 online resource (330 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents -- Introduction -- Prediction of World Peak Oil Production -- The Assessment and Importance of Oil Depletion -- Farming and Food Production Under Regimes of Climate Change -- The Laws of Energy -- The Caspian Chimera -- Dark Continent, Black Gold -- Battle of the Titans -- French Nuclear Power and the Global Market: An Economic Illusion -- Oil and Troubled Waters -- Oh Kyoto! -- Renewable Energy Limits -- Population, Energy and Economic Growth: The Moral Dilemma -- Apocalypse 2035 -- The Myth of Decoupling |
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""Crash and Crumble: Oil Shocks and the Bourse""""The Chinese Car Bomb""; ""A Reply to Ã?Global Petroleum Reserves Ã? A View to the FutureÃ? (by Thomas S. Ahlbrandt and J. McCabe, US Geological Survey)""; ""Price Signals and Global Energy Transition""; ""The Last Oil Wars""; ""Future Settings: Perspective for Sustainable Populations Ã? After OilÃ? in France and Australia""; ""A Projection of Future Coal Demand Given Diminishing Oil Supplies""; ""The Simpler Way""; ""Musing Along""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
Annotation This book explores the crisis in fossil fuels. Oil, gas and coal are precious resources that define modern life. Without them, mass-produced food and clothing, and international travel and cars, become rare or impossible. Yet our reliance on fossil fuels is responsible for massive environmental damage, and increasing economic and political instability. Control over oil resources has been a major factor in several wars. The price of oil is also key to world economic stability. Yet our supply of oil is limited. As with other fossil fuels, the more we burn, the more damage we do - the number one cause behind global warming is the increase in carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels. The international range of contributors to this book provide a truly global perspective on the dangers inherent in our over-consumption of oil, gas and coal. They explore detailed evidence of the imminent acceleration of fossil fuel depletion and the limits of 'sustainability'. They outline the political background to the situation, not just among the world's largest consumers of fossil fuel, the US and China, but also in Europe and the developing world. Considering our future economic survival, they include a detailed examination of France and Australia. Finally, they explore the extreme costs of alternatives such as nuclear power, and outline other possible lifestyles and methods |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects
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Power resources.
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Fossil Fuels
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Energy-Generating Resources
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fossil fuel.
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energy resources.
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Fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuels -- Environmental aspects.
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Power resources.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Newman, Sheila
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| ISBN |
9781849641999 |
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1849641994 |
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9780745320939 |
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0745320937 |
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