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Books : Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Decline in Earth's Resources
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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Decline in Earth's Resources by: Richard Heinberg List Price: £11.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £8.39 You Save: £3.60 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781905570133 ISBN: 1905570139 Label: Clairview Books Manufacturer: Clairview Books Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: November 02, 2007 Publisher: Clairview Books Studio: Clairview Books Sales Rank: 114879 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Personally didnt enjoy itI think this book does helps highlight finite earth resources, it contains a serious of articles, most of which I didnt think were written in a style that is enjoyable to read and the content is limited. Overall not that useful or even enjoyable to read. Rating:  - Brilliant and incisiveHeinberg is the foremost expert of 'peak oil' - the idea that we are more than half way through the world's oil reserves. Here he presents various angles on the problem: everything from how the industrial age influenced design to, yes, parrots. But, unlike the above reviewer, I found it all relevant. Heinberg has a clear mind, and his broad-ranging thoughts are here applied to a wide range of related issues to 'peak oil'. A good read! Rating: - Not at all what I expectedWith the title, "Peak Everything", I had imagined this book would provide some detail along the lines of the "Earth's Natural Wealth - An Audit" article in New Scientist issue #2605 ("World Stripped Bare") along with some analysis on the consequential impacts on efforts to mitigate the combined effects of fossil fuel depletion and Climate Change. I really looked forward to its release. Surely it is reasonable to expect such content according to the given title? Alas, no such luck. Instead, what's provided is a series of musings that Heinberg has written during his Peak Oil Campaign touring. As always, his writing is lucid and most of the metaphors presented are simultaneously interesting yet useless for depletionists (e.g. the ... Read More: |
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