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Author Heinberg, Richard.

Title Peak everything : waking up to the century of declines / Richard Heinberg ; foreword by James Howard Kunstler.

Imprint Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  304.2 H364p 2010    ---  Available
Description xxvi, 213 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents On technology, agriculture, and the arts. Tools with a life of their own ; Fifty million farmers ; (post-)Hydrocarbon aesthetics -- On nature's limits and the human condition. Five axioms of sustainability ; Parrots and peoples ; Population, resources, and human idealism -- The end of one era, the beginning of another. The psychology of peak oil and climate change ; Bridging peak oil and climate change activism ; Boomers' last chance? ; A letter from the future ; Talking ourselves to extinction.
Subject Human ecology.
Social history -- 21st century.
Sustainable agriculture.
Energy conservation.
ISBN 9780865716452
0865716455

 
    
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