Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (New Society Publishers)
by Richard Heinberg
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Author: Richard HeinbergEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-16
ISBN: 086571598X
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: New Society Publishers
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Summary: 2 Stars
This book starts with a completely reasonable premise. There is every reason to believe him when he states that the world will hit peak oil at some point in the next two decades and no one knows the exact date it will hit. It may have already hit in 2005. That however is where the rationality ends the rest of the book is wild speculation.
For one thing he is completely biased towards his way of fixing the problem. A book on energy depletion should at least mention the two most abundant fuels on earth: Thorium, which can run enough nuclear reactors for our entire society to survive for hundreds of years, and Deuterium, which could power enough fusion reactors to keep our society running for billions of years. Anyone who is seriously worried about resource depletion should be promoting more research and development into these technologies, rather than wallowing in pity for the human race. Even worse, he doesn't mention one of the best sources of renewable energy, geothermal power. Perhaps he covers these issues in one of his other books, but if so it is safe to say you can safely read that book and ignore this one.
Instead of focusing on how we can avoid our society from facing real issues he focuses on the bad things that could potentially happen. It really seems from his tone that he actually wants our society to collapse. In the end the book is little more than wishful thinking on his part. If you want to read a rational book on the subject of peak oil I would avoid this book, and read anything by Kenneth S. Duffeyes.
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