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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.