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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 to control access to oil shaped the geopolitics of the 20th century, and how contention for dwindling energy resources in the 21st century will lead to resource wars in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South America. He describes the likely impacts of oil depletion, and all of the energy alternatives. Predicting chaos unless the U.S. -- the world's foremost oil consumer -- is willing to join with other countries to implement a global program of resource conservation and sharing, he also recommends a "managed collapse" that might make way for a slower-paced, low-energy, sustainable society in the future.

More readable than other accounts of this issue, with fuller discussion of the context, social implications, and recommendations for personal, community, national, and global action, Heinberg's updated book is a riveting wake-up call for humankind as the oil era winds down, and a critical tool for understanding and influencing current U.S. foreign policy.

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Richard Heinberg is the author of nine books and is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels. With a wry, unflinching approach based on facts and realism, he exposes the tenuousness of our current way of life and offers a vision for a truly sustainable future.

Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute in California, Heinberg is best known as a leading educator on Peak Oil and its impacts. His expertise, publications and teachings also cover other critical issues including the current economic crisis, food and agriculture, community resilience, and global climate change.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The most Provocative Book Ever, Nov 28 2004
By Dan Bergeron "dcberger@uwo.ca" (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Party's Over (Paperback)
I ordered this book after viewing the documentary, "The End of Suburbia". This was a page turner. I had an understanding about the problems with energy and how we need to change society or our inactions will change it for us. I was moved, cornered, and energized. This is the best book for a lay person who wants to know how the West was brought about and how we're sharing our glamorous view of life with the rest of the world. I hope everyone who reads this will know what to invest in. And I hope if you read this book, you have intelligent people around you who will be able to critically think and ponder the reality of this. This book really excited me, not because I'm a Luddite at heart, but as a person who deep down knows there is so much more to life than what is being packaged and delivered to the masses. This will reinforce to those who already walk lightly on the earth and to those who have no idea how life as we know is sustained and how we got here. This is the ultimate history lesson because life comes down to accessing free energy and molding it to suit us and to thrive. Only now, we have learned the hows and whys. Are we smart enough to move or are we so tied up with politics and capitalism that only a small group of the human population will know what to do. And we're locked up and muted. This book is empowering and at moments, I cried.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining. . ., Jul 6 2004
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This review is from: The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies (Paperback)
If I were rating this book solely on entertainment value, I'd have given it 4 stars. . . it was a very enjoyable read. That said, I'm not sure I could even give the arguments in the book 2 stars. I found it particularly ironic that while he repeatedly disparages economist, he liberally quote Paul Ehrlich, who was so thoroughly embarrassed in his 1980's bet with the economist Julian Simon.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Read it then Judge, Jul 5 2004
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This review is from: The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies (Paperback)
Notice how almost all of the criticism of the book is not directed at what is said in the book but at some doomsayers from 30 or so years ago. Since the 1970's technology has given us a much better handle on what we have in the ground. We know from such innovations as 3-D seismic mapping that only 40% of the world's land and oceans have any potential for oil discovery and that there is a 50% chance that less than 1 trillion barrels of recoverable oil are in this 40%. This is something we had no clue about before the 1990's. As technology has enabled us to become more efficient at extracting the oil we know we have, it has ominously showed us how little is actually left. Heinberg's greatest success is in showing how the energy returned must exceed the energy spent when analyzing a source of energy. Hence it does not matter how cheap all these renewables get. Since oil is needed to build solar panels and ethanol plants and nuclear plants, we will not have enough cheap oil to upgrade the infrastructure in time to prevent a collapse.
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1.0 out of 5 stars a huge oversupply
...of bad books on the coming shortage of oil. Other reviews point out the flaws in the book including a lack of adaquet knowledge of alternative sources of fuel. Read more
Published on Jul 4 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars Wake up to Renewables and Synfuel
There's no question that within a decade at the most, and probably within two years, we'll be forced to begin utilizing alternative fuels to a much greater extent than today, as... Read more
Published on Jul 3 2004 by F David Doty PhD

2.0 out of 5 stars Authors biases do not help this books credibility
The occurrence of Hubbert's Peak - the point, where an ever increasing consumption of petroleum products overtakes production from obviously limited reserves - is a no-brainer... Read more
Published on Jun 13 2004 by misoalkalaj2

2.0 out of 5 stars Some historical perspective
I majored in Mineral Economics 25 years ago at the University of Arizona and we studied energy economics at length. Read more
Published on Jun 12 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars More frightening than the book is that it's taken seriously!
In the late '60s, Paul Ehrlich shocked the world and helped start off the Green Movement with his famous The Population Bomb. Read more
Published on Jun 7 2004 by Gerard Lynch

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm sooo scared. Protect meeeee!
Thanks to excellent writer David McGowan now I wonder who exactly are these Richard Heinberg, Michael Ruppert et al and what their agenda is. Read more
Published on May 27 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally -- the Truth!
Researching environmental threats, staying current on the environment and politics, trying to make a difference for the better -- all such persuits leave an individual feeling... Read more
Published on May 5 2004 by Caren Black

5.0 out of 5 stars Most depressing book I have ever read.
I'm sure that the economists would debate just about every point made by Mr. Heinberg in this (end of the world as we know it) book but the author offers justification and factual... Read more
Published on May 3 2004 by Donald N. Hilton

3.0 out of 5 stars mixed
The book evaluates alternative energy sources with a metric called "energy returned on energy invested" (EROEI). Read more
Published on April 29 2004 by J. Greene

3.0 out of 5 stars A great start, with some flaws.
I appreciate the book's attempt to use metrics. We need this sort of analysis. But I think it gets sometimes off track and its use of the statistics is a little tendentious... Read more
Published on April 26 2004

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