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Peak Everything

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by Richard Heinberg


  13 Richard Heinberg. The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse. New Society Publishers, 2006. oildepletionprotocol.org

  14 Marshall Sahlins. Stone Age Economics. Aldine, 1972.

  Gerhard Lenski. Power and Privilege. University of North Carolina Press, 1977.

  Ivan Illich. Energy and Equity. Calder and Boyars, 1974.

  Chapter 5

  1 Mark Bittner. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. Harmony Books, 2004. Mark Bittner’s website is markbittner.net

  The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. DVD. Directed by Judy Irving. pelicanmedia.org. All quotes are from the book.

  2 Gary Snyder. The Real Work: Interviews and Talks, 1964-1979. New Directions, 1980.

  3 Raymond C. Kelly. Warless Societies and the Origin of War. University of Michigan Press, 2000, pp. 20-21.

  4 Max Weber. The Vocation Lectures: “Science As a Vocation”; “Politics As a Vocation,” ed. David Owen and Tracy B. Strong. Hackett Publishing Company, 2004.

  5 Irene Pepperberg. The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots. Harvard University Press, 2002.

  6 Dinitia Smith. “A Thinking Bird, or Just Another Birdbrain?” New York Times, October 9, 1999.

  Chapter 6

  1 cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/malthus.htm (Cited December 11, 2006)

  2 William Stanton. The Rapid Growth of Human Populations 1750-2000. Multi-Science Publishing, 2003, pp. 73-74.

  3 peakoil.ie/newsletters/588 (Cited December 11, 2006)

  4 Albert Bartlett. Arithmetic, Population, and Energy. DVD, University of Colorado, 2002.

  Chapter 7

  1 Lewis Aptekar. Environmental Disasters in Global Perspective. G. K. Hall, 1994, p. 110.

  2 Samuel Prince. Catastrophe and Social Change. Columbia University Press, 1920.

  3 Max Weber. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology. Bedminster Press, 1968.

  4 Benjamin McLuckie. Italy, Japan, and the United States: Effects of Centralization on Disaster Responses 1964-1969. Disaster Research Center, Ohio State University, 1977.

  5 Lisa Rayner. Ecological Collapse, Trauma Theory and Permaculture. ecopsychology.org/journal/ezine/archive2/ecological_collapse.html (Cited June 12, 2007)

  6 Rob Hopkins. Is Our Collective Oil Dependence an Addiction? energy bulletin.net/16846.html (Cited June 11, 2007)

  7 World Health Organization. Lexicon of Alcohol and Drug Terms. who.int/substance_abuse/terminology/who_lexicon/en/ (Cited June 12, 2007)

  8 Doug McKenzie-Mohr and William Smith. Fostering Sustainable Behavior. New Society Publishers, 1999.

  Chapter 8

  1 Energy Watch Group. Coal: Resources and Future Production. energy watchgroup.org/files/Coalreport.pdf (cited June 11, 2007)

  2 David Fleming. The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy: A Life-Cycle in Trouble. The Lean Economy Connection, 2006.

  See also: Energy Watch Group. Uranium Resources and Nuclear Energy. energiekrise.de/news/docs/specials2006/REO-Uranium_5-12-2006pdf. (Cited June 12, 2007)

  Index

  A

  adaptation

  advertising

  agriculture: after techno-collapse; Cuba’s Special Period; and environmental damage; factors leading to famine; genetic engineering of new crops; intensification through history; level of land cultivation; and numbers of farmers; and Peak Oil; plan for de-industrialization; in pre-history; in US; and use of fossil fuels; world grain production

  airplanes

  All Consuming Images: On the Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture (Ewen)

  alternative energy sources: in agriculture; as savior after Peak Oil; as substitutes for non-renewable resources

  Aptekar, Lewis

  architecture

  Art Deco

  Art Nouveau

  arts, preservation of

  Arts and Crafts movement

  Ashbee. R.

  Asimov, Isaac

  B

  Baby Boom generation: defining moments; development; disillusionment; future; politics; wastefulness

  banking

  Bartlett, Albert A.

  Behrens, Peter

  Bellamy, Edward

  Bernays, Edward

  biofuels

  biointensive farming

  Bittner, Mark

  Blood and Oil (Klare)

  boom-and-bust cycles

  brain, development of

  Braudel, Fernand

  Brokaw, Tom

  Brundtland Report

  Burne-Jones, Edward

  Bush, George H.W.

  Bush, George W.

  business economics

  C

  Calkins, E. E.

  Campbell. J.

  Campbell, Joseph

  carbon dioxide emissions. see also greenhouse gas emissions

  carbon trading

  Carlowitz, Hanns Carl von

  cars

  Carter, Jimmy

  “Century of Self ” (Curtis)

  China

  CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

  cities

  civilization (see also industrialization): basis of; development; and emergent phenomena, garbage from; v. wild societies

  climate

  Climate Change (see also psychology of peak oil/climate change; techno-collapse): after techno-collapse; benefits of cooperation with Peak Oil; from burning fossil fuels (see also greenhouse gas emissions); concerted campaign for; conflict with Peak Oil; consequences of; experts in; peak levels of; possible strategies for; psychological theories on; scientific agreement on; strategies for psychologically coping with

  Clinton, Bill

  coal: “clean,” future role; and greenhouse gases; production levels

  Cold War

  The Collapse of Complex Societies (Tainter)

  Colodzin, Benjamin

  community building

  computers

  conures

  Cornwall, England

  corporations

  Crane, Walter

  CTL (coal-to-liquids)

  Cuba’s Special Period

  culture, preservation of. see also arts, preservation of

  currency collapse

  Curtis, Adam

  D

  Damasio, Antonio

  democracy

  design: industrial; and

  industrialized society; in a

  techno-collapsed world

  developing countries

  Diamond, Jared

  Diamond, Stanley

  dignity

  E

  Earth Day

  economic inequality

  economics: after techno-collapse; free market; of future agriculture; and idea of steady growth- and industrial revolution

  education

  egalitarianism

  Ehrlich, Paul

  emergent phenomena

  energy. see also alternative energy sources; fossil fuels; non-renewable resources

  Energy and Equity (Illich)

  environmental damage (see also Climate Change): after techno-collapse; from agriculture; by invasive species; and language barrier

  environmental movement

  EROEI (energy returned on energy invested)

  ethanol

  Ewen, Stuart

  ExxonMobil

  F

  famine: in early history; prediction of

  feedback loops, reinforcing

  fish harvests

  food production (see also agriculture): after techno-collapse; as key to human society; and Malthus; in pre-history; and rationing; in US; and use of fossil fuels

  forests

  fossil fuels (see also coal; natural gas; oil; tar sands): and agriculture; and concentrations of greenhouse gases (see also greenhouse gas emissions); consequences of continuing use of; earliest technology run on; and feedback loops; future of; and hippie aesthetic- and industrial revolution; and level of happiness; modern problems connected to; and modern technology; predicti
ons on how long they will last; scenarios of running out of; strategies for dealing with depletion of; substitutes for

  Fostering Sustainable Behavior (MacKenzie-Mohr and Smith)

  France

  Frank, Justin

  Freud, Sigmund

  G

  Gage, Phineas

  GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

  generation gap

  genetic engineering

  genetically modified crops

  Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)

  Gini index

  Glendinning, Chellis

  global warming. see also Climate Change

  Gore, Al

  government: after techno-collapse; and beginnings of political organization; and democracy; environmental legislation; and language; reaction to disaster; reaction to Peak Oil; and sustainability measures

  GPI (Genuine Progress Indicator)

  grain

  Great Britain

  The Greatest Generation (Brokaw)

  greenhouse gas emissions: from coal; concentrations by source; from fossil fuels; how much they need to be reduced; peak levels; strategies for reducing

  Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

  growth v. sustainability

  H

  Haber-Bosch process

  Hansen, James

  happiness

  Harris, Marvin

  Hawkins, Louis W.

  Heather, Peter

  heavy oil

  Herman, Judith

  hippies

  Hirsch, Robert

  Holmgren, David

  Hopkins, Rob

  horticulture

  Hubbard, Elbert

  Hubbert, M. King

  Huebner, Jonathan

  human rights

  Human Scale (Sale)

  hydrocarbons. see fossil fuels

  I

  ideological changes: away from fossil fuels; away from industrialization; from perpetual growth to sustainability; role of language in

  Illich, Ivan

  An Inconvenient Truth (Gore)

  Indian Line Farm

  industrial design

  industrialization (see also fossil fuels; techno-collapse): adapted to disasters; and crafts; history of; how it’s changed humans; and industrial revolution; modern criticism of; plan for de-industrialization; as savior; weeding ourselves off

  inventions

  Iroquois

  Irving, Judy

  J

  Jackson, Wes

  Jeavons, John

  K

  Kelly, R. C.

  Klare, Michael

  Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth

  L

  labor

  Lahontan, Baron de

  The Land Institute

  land use

  language: and belief in symbols; development; and economics; and environmental damage; and politics; and reason; and religion; role in civilization; and societal change

  leisure time

  Lerro, Bruce

  lifestyle choices

  The Limits to Growth (Club of Rome)

  local economies

  logic

  Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (Bellamy)

  love

  M

  MacKenzie-Mohr, Doug

  Macy, Joanna

  magical thinking

  Malthus, Thomas

  Mandil, Claude

  marketing. see also advertising

  McLuckie, Benjamin

  media

  Mexico

  Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

  Mollison, Bill

  money trading

  morality

  Morris, William

  Moyers, Bill

  Müller, Max

  Mumford, Lewis

  The Myth of the Machine (Mumford)

  mythology

  N

  natural gas

  The Natural Step

  nature

  Nelson, Gaylord

  Nixon, Richard

  non-renewable resources. see also fossil fuels

  nuclear power

  O

  oil (see also Peak Oil): as bulwark of US economy; level of dependency on; production levels; substitutes for; sustainability; and wars

  Oil Depletion Protocol

  oil shale

  Oman

  Ornstein, Robert

  P

  parrots

  Pauli, Wolfgang

  Peak Oil (see also psychology of peak oil/climate change; techno-collapse): benefits of cooperation with Climate Change; concerted campaign for; conflict with Climate Change; definition; depletionists’ and their views; effects of; experts in; possible strategies for; predictions of when it will happen; psychological theories on; strategies for psychologically coping with; in US

  Pepperberg, Irene

  permaculture

  petrochemicals

  politics (see also government): after techno-collapse; beginnings of political organization; in a de-industrialized society; and greenhouse gas emissions; and the industrial revolution; and population explosion; and quasi-religious ideologies; role in changing society; and success of technology; and sustainability measures; in US

  pollution

  Poon, Wing-Chi

  population: and A. Bartlett and I. Asimov; level through history; methods of controlling; and politics; and sustainability; and T. Malthus; and W. Stanton

  post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  poverty. see also economic inequality

  Prince, Samuel

  progress as an idea

  psychological maturity

  psychology of peak oil/climate change: described as addiction and dependency; and mass behavior change; and post-traumatic stress disorder; and response to crisis; treated like grief

  R

  The Rapid Growth of Human Populations, 1750-2000 (Stanton)

  Rayner, Lisa

  Reagan, Ronald

  The Real Work (Snyder)

  Rees, William

  religion: after techno-collapse; development; in politics

  renewable resources. see also alternative energy sources

  Robèrt, Karl-Henrik

  Rockefeller, John D.

  Rolfe, Douglas

  Roosevelt, Eleanor

  Roycrofters

  Ruskin, John

  Russia (Soviet Union)

  S

  Sale, Kirkpatrick

  Sasol

  Saving Private Ryan

  science, preservation of

  scientific method, development of

  September 11th, 2001

  sequestration

  Smith, William

  Snyder, Gary

  social marketing

  social welfare

  societal change (see also ideological changes; techno-collapse): and language; and politics

  solar power

  Soviet Union

  specialization

  species extinction

  spirituality. see also religion

  Stanton, William

  starlings

  Stephenson, George

  Strauss, Leo

  sustainability: axioms of; definition of; history of concept; and politics; v. growth

  symbolism

  T

  Tainter, Joseph

  tar sands

  techno-collapse: aesthetic of; anger and violence during- and communications; description of; and environment; and government; J. Tainter’s view of; and politics; severity of; suggestions for survival

  technology. see industrialization; techno-collapse

  Terkel, Studs

  U

  United States: agriculture; Baby Boom generation; energy production; envir¶nmental movement; food production; and Gross Domestic Product; hours spent on the job in; oil as bulwark of economy; politics

  uranium

  Urinetown

  V

  Victory Gardens

  Vietnam War

  violence. see also war

  W

  war:
after techno-collapse; in civilized society; and connection to fossil fuels; Vietnam; World War II,

  water: after techno-collapse; arctic ice melt; consumption levels; and glacier retreat; scarcity of fresh

  Weber, Max

  The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Bittner)

  women

  World War II

  Wright, Frank Lloyd

  Z

  Zerzan, John

  About the Author

  RICHARD HEINBERG is the author of seven previous books including The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (New Society, 2003, 2005), Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (New Society, 2004), and The Oil Depletion Protocol (New Society, 2006). He is an educator, editor, lecturer, a Core Faculty member of New College of California’s Campus for Sustainable Living, and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators.

  He has also authored scores of essays and articles, which have appeared in journals such as The American Prospect, Quarterly Review, Public Policy Research, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal; and on web sites such as GlobalPublicMedia.com, Alternet.org, EnergyBulletin.net, ProjectCensored.com, and Counterpunch.com.

  In 2005, Powerdown received Fore Word magazine’s Bronze Environmental Award. In 2007, The Oil Depletion Protocol won ForeWord’s Gold Environmental Award as well as the Independent Publishers Book of the Year (IPPY) Bronze Award in the category of Current Events.

  His books have been translated into eight languages.

  Since 2002, he has given over three hundred lectures on oil depletion (“Peak Oil”) to a wide variety of audiences, including members of the European Parliament.

  He is the recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education (2006).

  Heinberg appears prominently in the documentary films 11th Hour (produced and narrated by Leonardo diCaprio, 2007); Asleep in America (2007); The History Channel’s Megadisasters series, episode on Peak Oil (2007); What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007); Escape from Suburbia (2007); Crude Impact (2006); the nationally televised PBS documentary Ripe for Change (2006); The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006); and The End of Suburbia (2004). He is currently working with Discovery Channel on the upcoming sustainability series, Final Hour.

 

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