03311cam a2200373 4500 233380702 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781550925845 1550925849 B00U7Y5SKQ Amazon 612ce433-6d95-417f-afda-b7208ea21788 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2166526 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Heinberg, Richard. Afterburn [Libby eBook] : Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. New Society Publishers, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 2011kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 665kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy "plug-and-play" solution, author Richard Heinberg suggests instead that we are in for a wild ride; a "civilization reboot" on a scale similar to the agricultural and industrial revolutions.</p> <p><i>Afterburn</i> consists of fifteen essays exploring various aspects of the twenty-first century migration away from fossil fuels including:</p> <ul> <li>Short-term political and economic factors that impede broad-scale, organized efforts to adapt</li> <li>The origin of longer-term trends (such as consumerism), that have created a way of life that seems "normal" to most Americans, but is actually unprecedented, highly fragile, and unsustainable</li> <li>Potential opportunities and sources of conflict that are likely to emerge</li> </ul> <p>From the inevitability and desirability of more locally organized economies to the urgent need to preserve our recent cultural achievements and the futility of pursuing economic growth above all, <i>Afterburn</i> offers cutting-edge perspectives and insights that challenge conventional thinking about our present, our future, and the choices in our hands.</p> <p><b>Richard Heinberg</b> is a senior fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, the author of eleven previous books including <i>The Party's Over</i> and <i>The End of Growth</i>. He is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels.</p>. Technology. Nonfiction. Politics. Science. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=612ce433-6d95-417f-afda-b7208ea21788 https://samples.overdrive.com/afterburn-612ce4?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/afterburn-612ce4?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/afterburn-612ce4?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/afterburn-612ce4?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)