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The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment

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The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years. The world is in economic crisis, and there are no easy fixes to our predicament. Unsustainable trends in the economy, energy, and the environment have finally caught up with us and are converging on a very narrow window of time—the "Twenty-Teens." The Crash Course presents our predicament and illuminates the path ahead, so you can face the coming disruptions and thrive--without fearing the future or retreating into denial. In this book you will find solid facts and grounded reasoning presented in a calm, positive, non-partisan manner. Our money system places impossible demands upon a finite world.  Exponentially rising levels of debt, based on assumptions of future economic growth to fund repayment, will shudder to a halt and then reverse. Unfortunately, our financial system does not operate in reverse. The consequences of massive deleveraging will be severe. Oil is essential for economic growth. The reality of dwindling oil supplies is now internationally recognized, yet virtually no developed nations have a Plan B.  The economic risks to individuals, companies, and countries are varied and enormous. Best-case, living standards will drop steadily worldwide. Worst-case, systemic financial crises will toss the world into jarring chaos. This book is written for those who are motivated to learn about the root causes of our predicaments, protect themselves and their families, mitigate risks as much as possible, and control what effects they can. With challenge comes opportunity, and The Crash Course offers a positive vision for how to reshape our lives to be more balanced, resilient, and sustainable.

Table of Contents:
Foreword vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii Part I How to Approach the Next Twenty Years Chapter 1 The Coming Storm 3 Chapter 2 The Lens: How to See the Future 7 Chapter 3 A World Worth Inheriting 11 Chapter 4 Trust Yourself 15 Part II Foundation Chapter 5 Dangerous Exponentials 21 Chapter 6 An Inconvenient Lie: The Truth about Growth 35 Chapter 7 Our Money System 41 Chapter 8 Problems and Predicaments 53 Chapter 9 What is Wealth? (Hint: It’s Not Money) 57 Part III Economy Chapter 10 Debt 65 Chapter 11 The Great Credit Bubble 79 Chapter 12 Like a Moth to Flame: Our Destructive Tendency to Print 95 Chapter 13 Fuzzy Numbers 103 Chapter 14 Starting the Race with Our Shoes Tied Together 115 Part IV Energy Chapter 15 Energy and the Economy 125 Chapter 16 Peak Oil 141 Chapter 17 Necessary but Insufficient: Coal, Nuclear, and Alternatives 159 Chapter 18 Why Technology Can’t Fix This 177 Part V Environment Chapter 19 Minerals: Gone with the Wind 187 Chapter 20 Soil: Thin, Thinner, Gone 197 Chapter 21 Parched: The Coming Water Wars 205 Chapter 22 All Fished Out 213 Part VI Convergence Chapter 23 Convergence: Why the Twenty–Teens Will Be Difficult 219 Chapter 24 Closing the Book on Growth 227 Chapter 25 Future Scenarios 231 Part VII What Should I Do? Chapter 26 The Good News: We Already Have Everything We Need 249 Chapter 27 What Should I Do? 255 Chapter 28 The Opportunities 267 Appendix 277 Notes 279 Index 291


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780470927649
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Depth: 32
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 33 mm
  • Weight: 522 gr
  • ISBN-10: 047092764X
  • Publisher Date: 05 Apr 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment
  • Width: 158 mm


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