Half of the worldβs inhabitants now live in cities. In the next twenty years, the number of urban dwellers will swell to an estimated five billion people. With their inefficient transportation systems and poorly designed buildings, many citiesβespecially in the United Statesβconsume enormous quantit
Climate Change and Peak Oil
β Scribed by Kar Y. Lee
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 154
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
<b>A sustainability expert goes beyond renewables, calling on us to combat the climate crisis with a new, low-energy way of life.</b> Concerns over climate change and energy depletion are increasing exponentially. Mainstream solutions still assume that some miracle will cure our climate ills withou
Future Scenarios In "Future Scenarios," permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David Holmgren outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural, and economic implications of peak oil and climate change, and the generations-long era of "e
In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. Hughes centers his analysis on Trinidad and Tobago, which is the
<p><p>The term βPeak Oilβ was born in January 2001 when Colin Campbell formed the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO). Now, Peak Oil is used thousands of times a day by journalists, politicians, industry leaders, economists, scientists and countless others around the globe. Peak Oil i