The Future Is Not What It Used to Be: Climate Change and Energy Scarcity (MIT Press)
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (856 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262019248 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Stephen Quilley, Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo)This is a very welcome contribution to the public debate on climate change and peak oil. Brown) of Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options)Jörg Friedrichs explains with clarity and force how industrial civilization is imperiled by climate change and energy scarcity -- and why we probably won't act until it is too late to forestall fatal disruption and massive suffering. Through an astute and well-reasoned argument, Friedrichs -- citing past cases in which climate stress was
Jörg Friedrichs teaches at the University of Oxford in the Department of International Development.
"behavior, energy constraints and climate change" according to jenergy. Friedrichs' builds on earlier works describing the current planetary overshoot we are in by detailing how earlier civilizations dealt with environmental change and energy scarcity. He also presents an informative analysis on why human behavior so strongly turns to d. Alice Friedemann said Outstanding book on peak oil and the energy scarcity of the future. This paper expands on what Friedrichs covered in his 9-page "Outstanding book on peak oil and the energy scarcity of the future" according to Alice Friedemann. This paper expands on what Friedrichs covered in his 9-page 2010 journal article "Global energy crunch: How different parts of the world would react to a peak oil scenario" in Energy Policy, where he covered the three very different ways North Korea, Cuba, and Japan. 010 journal article "Global energy crunch: How different parts of the world would react to a peak oil scenario" in Energy Policy, where he covered the three very different ways North Korea, Cuba, and Japan
Past abundance of fuel, for example, does not imply unending abundance. To understand the social and political implications, he examines historical cases of climate stress and energy scarcity: devastating droughts in the ancient Near East; the Little Ice Age in the medieval Far North; the Japanese struggle to prevent "fuel starvation" from 1918 to 1945; the "totalitarian retrenchment" of the North Korean governing class after the end of Soviet oil deliveries; and Cuba's socioeconomic adaptation to fuel scarcity in the 1990s. The future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that it will resemble the past. Infinite growth on a finite planet is not possible. He draws important lessons about the likely effects of climate and energy disruptions on different kinds of societies.The warnings of climate scientists are met by denial and inaction, while energy experts offer little guidance on the effects of future scarcity. Friedrichs suggests that to confront our predicament we must affirm our core values and take action to transform our way of life. In this book, J