272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Substantial evidence suggests that we are currently living at the peak of oil production with few prospects for cheap oil ever returning. Yet the media, politicians and regular people have hardly started to talk about what this means. Oil literally runs our societies from transportation to food production to economic activity. Without oil, everything stops. There are powerful arguments that if we... Read more

Introduction  1. Oil  2.  The End of Cheap Oil  3. What Instead of Oil?  4. Oil in the Modern Industrialized Society  5. World After Cheap Oil  Appendix 1: Oil in Numbers  Appendix 2: Oil Markets  Appendix 3: Reason Alone Won't Make Change Happen

Biography

Rauli Partanen - President and founder of Peak Oil Finland (a non-profit organization), independent writer, lecturer and consultant on the environment, energy, society, the economy and their interrelations. B.B.A.

Harri Paloheimo - Founder of Peak Oil Finland; CEO and co-founder of Coreorient Ltd. developing crowdsourced deliveries; M.Sc.; Phd student in Aalto University on transport energy efficiency; consultant for companies, cities and the Finnish Parliament in the areas of energy and transport.

Heikki Waris - Founder of Peak Oil Finland; Co-founder of Coreorient Ltd. developing crowdsourced deliveries; M.Sc.; consultant for companies, cities and the Finnish Parliament in the areas of energy and transport.

"If you are already familiar with the peak oil literature, this book will provide you with a comprehensive, up-to-date summary that covers nearly every relevant topic within this field. If you are new to this discussion, prepare to have your world shaken." Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute