Book: The Party's Over

Heinberg presents a compelling and rather startling case for the near-term end of the industrial era, caused in large part by the end of cheap supplies of petroleum.

This book is part of the burgeoning movement known as Peak Oil.

Heinberg’s argument is generally quite solid, but he may be dismissing some alternative forms of energy, such as nuclear, too quickly. Although it may be too late to avoid the effects of the decline in petroleum production, as those effects begin to sink in the current political and social barriers to the construction of new nuclear plants may begin to fall.

In any case, after reading this book I find myself looking around my surroundings and wondering what will remain and what will have to go when the oil runs out.