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“The growing demand for oil is leading to a growing global conflict in which the Gulf War, the 9/11 attack, and the war in Iraq are just the first three skirmishes.”

—Amos Nur, professor emeritus of geophysics, Stanford University

Post Carbon Institute

covers the “interrelated economic, energy, and environmental crises that define the 21st century”

After oil wars, then green wars?

Even if we wean ourselves off oil, there are still plenty of things we could fight over

Read: “The Soviet Example”

Chapter 1 of Dmitry Orlov’s book “Reinventing Collapse”

“My career as a prophet is over. I’m now a historian, looking back at the peak.”

—Kenneth Deffeyes, Princeton University geologist, on his prediction that world oil production would peak around 2006

bookshelf

books I've read on failure & grace

The World Without Us
The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man
Zeitoun
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
The Tipping Point
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World


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