The Final Energy Crisis

With oil reaching $100 a barrel in January 2008 and the US facing challenges to dollar hegemony, few people would now deny that there is an energy crisis and that it is linked to economic uncertainty. However, the mainstream lacks a theory to explain this apparently sudden challenge to optimistic expectations of long-term economic growth and an end to world poverty. The Final Energy Crisis provides political explanations to fill that gap. The authors engage with depletion trends in oil, gas, coal, uranium, soil and biodiversity. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, they study energy trends, prospects, assets and liabilities in different political systems and regions, including the US, Venezuela, China, Africa, the ex-Soviet Union, North Korea, Japan, France and Australia. Far from being a doom-laden work on peak oil, this book offers practical suggestions for readers keen to be part of the solution to resource depletion. This comprehensively updated edition includes 13 new chapters and thorough revisions of existing material.

ISBN 0745327184   Pages 336 ISBN13 9780745327181 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Pluto Press   Weight (grammes) 499 Imprint Pluto Press   Published in London Format Hardback   Previous ISBN 9780745320939 Publication date 20 Jul 2008   Height (mm) 215 Library of Congress TP318   Width (mm) 135 DEWEY 333.79   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

		List of Tables and Figures
1		Introduction - In the Beginning by Sheila Newman		1
Pt. I		Measuring Our Predicament		5
2		101 Views from Hubbert's Peak by Sheila Newman		7
3		Prediction of World Peak Oil Production by Seppo A. Korpela		28
4		The Assessment and Importance of Oil Depletion by Colin J. Campbell		48
5		Coal Resources of the World by Seppo A. Korpela		75
Pt. II		Geopolitics		87
6		The Caspian Chimera by Colin J. Campbell		93
7		Update to the Caspian Chimera by Sheila Newman		99
8		Battle of the Titans by Mark Jones		101
9		Dark Continent, Black Gold by Andrew McKillop		112
10		The Chinese Car Bomb by Andrew McKillop		119
11		Venezuela, Chavez, and Latin American Oil on the World Stage by Sheila Newman		128
Pt. III		The Big Picture - False Solutions, Hopes, and Fears		137
12		No Choice but International Energy Transition by Andrew McKillop		141
13		Population, Energy, and Economic Growth: The Moral Dilemma by Ross McCluney		151
14		Renewable Energy Limits by Ross McCluney		162
15		Peak Soil by Alice Friedemmm		177
16		Notes on Terra Preta by Sheila Newman		193
17		Nuclear Fission Power Options by Sheila Newman		196
18		Fusion Illusions by Michael Dittmar		214
19		Geothermal by Sheila Newman		233
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