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The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.03 — 750 ratings — published 2003
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,167 ratings — published 2003
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.88 — 380 ratings — published 2007
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.43 — 239 ratings — published 2005
The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.18 — 801 ratings — published 2008
Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.74 — 397 ratings — published 2012
Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.75 — 222 ratings — published
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.96 — 916 ratings — published 2011
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.97 — 600 ratings — published 2008
Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.79 — 652 ratings — published 2005
The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.07 — 330 ratings — published 2009
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.02 — 964 ratings — published 2008
Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.84 — 313 ratings — published 2009
Houston, 2030: The Year Zero (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.88 — 40 ratings — published 2014
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.84 — 987 ratings — published 2009
Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.84 — 308 ratings — published 2004
World Made by Hand (World Made by Hand #1)
by (shelved 5 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,562 ratings — published 2007
Half Gone (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.56 — 138 ratings — published 2005
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,578 ratings — published 1993
$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.53 — 526 ratings — published 2007
Depletion & Abundance: Life on the New Home Front (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.02 — 343 ratings — published 2008
Understanding the Peak Oil Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2010
Peak of the Devil: 100 Questions (and answers) About Peak Oil
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2010
Peak of the Devil: 100 Questions (and answers) about Peak Oil
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published 2010
After Oil: SF Visions Of A Post-Petroleum World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.77 — 62 ratings — published 2012
The Big Flatline: Oil and the No-Growth Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.96 — 45 ratings — published 2012
The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future Of Our Economy, Energy, And Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.17 — 646 ratings — published 2011
Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.74 — 88 ratings — published 2009
END OF OIL (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,127 ratings — published 2004
Profit from the Peak: The End of Oil and the Greatest Investment Event of the Century (Angel Series)
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.62 — 32 ratings — published 2008
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,211 ratings — published 1998
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.06 — 841 ratings — published 2003
Peak Oil Survival: Preparation for Life After Gridcrash (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.58 — 62 ratings — published 2006
Petroplague (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.73 — 120 ratings — published 2011
The Limits to Growth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.18 — 916 ratings — published
Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.25 — 68 ratings — published 2011
The Archdruid Report: The Coming of Peak Oil - Collected Essays, Volume I, 2006-2007 (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.60 — 10 ratings — published
Introduction to Peak Oil (Lecture Notes in Energy, 34)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2016
Crude Oil: Uncertainty about Future Oil Supply Makes It Important to Develop a Strategy for Addressing a Peak and Decline in Oil Production (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Microprocessor and Peak Oil - Discontinuities in Our Civilisation (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006
Trends in Oil Supply and Demand, the Potential for Peaking of Conventional Oil Production, and Possible Mitigation Options: A Summary Report of the Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2006
Not the Future We Ordered: Peak Oil, Psychology, and the Myth of Progress (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.94 — 65 ratings — published 2013
Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.75 — 443 ratings — published 2007
Life After Peak Oil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2014
Oil Dusk: A Peak Oil Story (Net Zero Policy Disaster)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.84 — 19 ratings — published 2009
Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.76 — 456 ratings — published 2004
The "Peak Oil" Scare and the Coming Oil Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 1.67 — 3 ratings — published 2015
Houston, 2015: Miss Uncertainty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published
Peeking at Peak Oil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 4.05 — 19 ratings — published 2011
The Water Knife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as peak-oil)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,116 ratings — published 2015
“What we all have to avoid is the notion that we can buy our way out of our problems. Instead, the goal is to reduce our costs by extreme frugality. This is psychologically difficult because if there is one great certain confidence in American society it is this: you can buy your way out of almost anything. Other than a few things that will land you in jail even if you are rich, we tend to look for solutions that involve buying things. Having trouble with your marriage? Take a vacation. Pay a counsellor. Don't want to eat pesticides? Buy organic food! Indebted? Buy a book about how to get out. Worried about Peak Oil? Look at all the things there are to buy. Got a crosscut saw and a year's supply of dry milk yet? Don't want to give up driving and flying? We'll sell you some nice carbon offsets.”
― Depletion & Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
― Depletion & Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources, and . . . world famine could be totally relieved if we devoted the same resources of lawn culture to food culture in poor areas. These facts are before us. Thus, we can look at lawns, like double garages and large guard dogs, [and Humvees and SUVs] as a badge of willful waste, conspicuous consumption, and lack of care for the earth or its people.
Most lawns are purely cosmetic in function. Thus, affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home.
The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands.
It is past time to tax lawns (or any wasteful consumption), and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated.”
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Most lawns are purely cosmetic in function. Thus, affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home.
The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands.
It is past time to tax lawns (or any wasteful consumption), and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated.”
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