'Peak Everything: ...' Richard Heinberg

Tuike

Peak Everything: Waking up to the century of decline in Earth's resources
Richard Heinberg
2007
200 pages.

I just read the Heinberg's new book I ordered from the british Amazon. This book is not for beginners in peak oil matters. It would be good to have read one introductry book peak oil and global warming before starting to read this book or at least have spent some time reading peakoil.com forums before reading this book because there might be some confusion what is he talking about. The book doesn't tell one by one about depletion of oil, water coal etc, but it is a compilation of essays about various things about theoretical armageddon, about how we humans are dependent of machines and how ugly modern factory made products are compared to old handmade stuff. At the end of the book there's a chapter of a letter from the future. There's alot of doomer porn in there, how things have gone bad in the future.

One of my favourite lines from the book:
”The machines themselves have become so sophisticated, their services so seductive, that they are equivalent to magic. Few people fully understand the inner workings of any given tool, and different tools require their unique teams of specialists for their design and repair. But what's more important, in the process of becoming dependent upon them, we have become almost a different species as compared to our ancestors.”

This is a good book if you wish there would be more peak oil theories in the peak oil discussion forum at this site. This book offers some.

morph · Heavy Crude Joined: Jul 28, 2006 Posts: 103

I ordered the book last week and should be coming on tuesday (along with 'guns, germs and steel'. Looking forward to having a good read.

Don35 · Heavy Crude Joined: Feb 07, 2006 Posts: 127

Yup. Just started on it. Should be interesting!
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[quote="Tuike"]One of my favourite lines from the book:
”The machines themselves have become so sophisticated, their services so seductive, that they are equivalent to magic. Few people fully understand the inner workings of any given tool, and different tools require their unique teams of specialists for their design and repair. But what's more important, in the process of becoming dependent upon them, we have become almost a different species as compared to our ancestors.”quote]

Marx referred to this as the alienation of man...from his labour, himself, nature and those around him.
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Tuike

The edition of the book published by Clairview has been out of stock for awhile in british Amazon. Good thing I preordered the book in time so I got it. I wonder what's going on? Have they printed too few copies?