Not the future we ordered, peak oil, psychology, and the myth of progress, John Michael Greer
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Not the future we ordered, peak oil, psychology, and the myth of progress, John Michael Greer
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Not the future we ordered
Nature of contents
bibliography
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820782261
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John Michael Greer
Sub title
peak oil, psychology, and the myth of progress
Summary
For well over half a century, since the first credible warnings of petroleum depletion were raised in the 1950s, contemporary industrial civilization has been caught in a remarkable paradox: a culture more focused on problem solving than any other has repeatedly failed to deal with, or even consider, the problem most likely to bring its own history to a full stop. The coming of peak oil-the peaking and irreversible decline of world petroleum production-poses an existential threat to societies in which every sector of the economy depends on petroleum-based transport, and no known energy source--, Provided by Publisher
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