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  The Long Emergency

  Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

  by James Howard Kunstler

  James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency was an underground hit, going into nine printings of the hardcover edition. His shocking vision for our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders and was the subject of much debate, stimulating discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels. Now in paperback, with a new afterword, The Long Emergency is set to reach an even larger... (more)
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  The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

  by Richard Heinberg

  The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter was from medieval... (more)
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  Twilight in the Desert

  The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy

  by Matthew R. Simmons

  Twilight in the Desert reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In this exhaustively researched book, veteran oil industry analyst Matthew Simmons draws on his three-plus decades of insider experience and more than 200 independently produced reports about Saudi petroleum resources and production operations. He uncovers a story about Saudi Arabia’s... (more)
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  The Transition Handbook

  From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience

  by Rob Hopkins

  We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local... (more)
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  Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

  Oil and the End of Globalization

  by Jeff Rubin

  An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American–a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically change our lives. Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller is a powerful and provocative book that explores what the new global economy will look like and what it will mean for all of us. In a compelling and... (more)
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  American Theocracy

  The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

  by Kevin P. Phillips

  From America’s premier political analyst, an explosive examination of the axis of religion, politics, and borrowed money that threatens to destroy the nation In his two most recent New York Times bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy , Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling—and imperiling—the United... (more)
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  The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

  The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late, Revised and Updated

  by Thom Hartmann

  While everything appears to be collapsing around us -- ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars -- we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s web movie Global Warning, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our... (more)
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  World Made By Hand: Book 2

  The Witch of Hebron

  by James Howard Kunstler

  Already a renowned social commentator and a best-selling novelist and nonfiction writer, James Howard Kunstler has recently attained even greater prominence in the global conversation about energy and the environment. In the sequel to his novel, World Made by Hand , Kunstler expands on his vision of a post-oil society with a new novel about an America in which the electricity has flickered off, the Internet is a... (more)
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  Reinventing Collapse

  The Soviet Example and American Prospects

  by Dmitry Orlov

  The title of this book is Reinventing Collapse , and I have to say that's exactly what this book manages to do. It's a short book, so you could reqad it in just a few hours, but it is packed with information and "make you think" moments. Orlov's unique perpsective on American life engages the reader and opens your eyes to what life in America is like to an outsider. Without a doubt the most useful aspect of this... (more)
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  World Made by Hand: Book 1

  World Made by Hand

  by James Howard Kunstler

  In the best-seller The Long Emergency , James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. With World Made By Hand Kunstler makes an imaginative leap into the future, a few decades hence, and shows us what life may be like after these coming catastrophes—the end of oil, climate change, global pandemics, and resource... (more)
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  Empire of Debt

  The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis

  by William Bonner

  In Empire of Debt, maverick financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin provide you with the first in-depth look at how the American character has shifted to accommodate its new imperial role; how we have abandoned the private virtues of personal liberty, economic freedom, and fiscal restraint; and how the government has gained control of public life and the economy.
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  China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America

  by James Kynge

  “Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” Napoleon’s words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China’s awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China’s ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food -- and its... (more)
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  Preparing for the Twenty First Century

  by Paul M. Kennedy

  Kennedy's groundbreaking book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers helped to reorder the current priorities of the United States. Now, he synthesizes extensive research on fields ranging from demography to robotics to draw a detailed, persuasive, and often sobering map of the very near future--a bold work that bridges the gap between history, prophecy, and policy.
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  The End of Oil

  On the Edge of a Perilous New World

  by Paul Roberts

  You live in this world. You use oil. You must read this book. The situation is alarming and irrefutable: within thirty years, even by conservative estimates, we will have burned our way through most of the oil that is readily available to us. Already, the costly side effects of dependence on fossil fuel are taking their toll. Even as oil-related conflict threatens entire nations, individual consumers are... (more)
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  The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

  The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late

  by Thom Hartmann

  A call to consciousness combining spirituality and ecology that offers hope for the future. As the world's population explodes, cultures and species are wiped out, and we have now reached the halfway point of our supplies of oil, humans the world over are confronting difficult choices about how to create a future that works. Thom Hartmann proposes that the only lasting solution to the crises we face is to... (more)
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  Powerdown

  Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World

  by Richard Heinberg

  If the US continues with its current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is prepared. The political elites, especially in the US, are incapable of dealing with the situation and have in mind a punishing game of "Last One Standing." The alternative is "Powerdown," a... (more)
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  The Shell Game

  by Steve Alten

  From the Publisher The events of September 11th, 2001,the invasion of Iraq,the threat of radical Islam,an impending showdown with Iran. What do these situations have in common? Oil. And the world is running out. The SHELL GAME is far more than a thriller, it is a MUST-READ cautionary tale that exposes the next 9/11 event a deception that will lead to a retaliatory chemical weapons strike on Iran and the terrorist... (more)
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  Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change

  by Timothy Beatley, Dr. Peter Newman

  Half of the world’s 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 cities—especially in the United States—consume enormous quantities of fossil fuels and emit high levels of greenhouse gases. But our planet is rapidly running out of the... (more)
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  Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis

  by Vandana Shiva

  With Soil Not Oil , Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary. Condemning industrial agriculture as a recipe for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva's champion is the small, independent farm: their greater productivity, their greater potential for social justice... (more)
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  Confronting Collapse

  The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World

  by Michael C. Ruppert

  The book that inspired the movie COLLAPSE. The world is running short of energy-especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases, threaten industrialized civilization, the global economy, and our entire way of life. In Confronting Collapse , author Michael C. Ruppert, a former LAPD narcotics officer turned investigative journalist, details the intricate connections between money... (more)