Peak Everything (34 page)

1
Energy Watch Group.
Coal: Resources and Future Production.
energy
watchgroup.org/files/Coalreport.pdf
(cited June 11, 2007)

2
David Fleming.
The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy: A Life-Cycle in Trouble.
The Lean Economy Connection, 2006.

adaptation

advertising

agriculture: after techno-collapse; Cuba's Special Period; and environmental damage; factors leading to famine; genetic engineering of new crops; intensification through history; level of land cultivation; and numbers of farmers; and Peak Oil; plan for de-industrialization; in pre-history; in US; and use of fossil fuels; world grain production

airplanes

All Consuming Images: On the Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture
(Ewen)

alternative energy sources: in agriculture; as savior after Peak Oil; as substitutes for non-renewable resources

Aptekar, Lewis

architecture

Art Deco

Art Nouveau

arts, preservation of

Arts and Crafts movement

Ashbee. R.

Asimov, Isaac

Baby Boom generation: defining moments; development; disillusionment; future; politics; wastefulness

banking

Bartlett, Albert A.

Behrens, Peter

Bellamy, Edward

Bernays, Edward

biofuels

biointensive farming

Bittner, Mark

Blood and Oil
(Klare)

boom-and-bust cycles

brain, development of

Braudel, Fernand

Brokaw, Tom

Brundtland Report

Burne-Jones, Edward

Bush, George H.W.

Bush, George W.

business economics

Calkins, E. E.

Campbell. J.

Campbell, Joseph

carbon dioxide emissions.
see also
greenhouse gas emissions

carbon trading

Carlowitz, Hanns Carl von

cars

Carter, Jimmy

“Century of Self ” (Curtis)

China

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)

cities

civilization (
see also
industrialization): basis of; development; and emergent phenomena,
garbage from; v. wild societies

climate

Climate Change (
see also
psychology of peak oil/climate change; techno-collapse): after techno-collapse; benefits of cooperation with Peak Oil; from burning fossil fuels (
see also
greenhouse gas emissions); concerted campaign for; conflict with Peak Oil; consequences of; experts in; peak levels of; possible strategies for; psychological theories on; scientific agreement on; strategies for psychologically coping with

Clinton, Bill

coal: “clean,” future role; and greenhouse gases; production levels

Cold War

The Collapse of Complex Societies
(Tainter)

Colodzin, Benjamin

community building

computers

conures

Cornwall, England

corporations

Crane, Walter

CTL (coal-to-liquids)

Cuba's Special Period

culture, preservation of.
see also
arts, preservation of

currency collapse

Curtis, Adam

Damasio, Antonio

democracy

design: industrial; and

industrialized society; in a

techno-collapsed world

developing countries

Diamond, Jared

Diamond, Stanley

dignity

Earth Day

economic inequality

economics: after techno-collapse; free market; of future agriculture; and idea of steady growth- and industrial revolution

education

egalitarianism

Ehrlich, Paul

emergent phenomena

energy.
see also
alternative energy sources; fossil fuels; non-renewable resources

Energy and Equity
(Illich)

environmental damage (
see also
Climate Change): after techno-collapse; from agriculture; by invasive species; and language barrier

environmental movement

EROEI (energy returned on energy invested)

ethanol

Ewen, Stuart

ExxonMobil

famine: in early history; prediction of

feedback loops, reinforcing

fish harvests

food production (
see also
agriculture): after techno-collapse; as key to human society; and
Malthus; in pre-history; and rationing; in US; and use of fossil fuels

forests

fossil fuels (
see also
coal; natural gas; oil; tar sands): and agriculture; and concentrations of greenhouse gases (
see also
greenhouse gas emissions); consequences of continuing use of; earliest technology run on; and feedback loops; future of; and hippie aesthetic- and industrial revolution; and level of happiness; modern problems connected to; and modern technology; predictions on how long they will last; scenarios of running out of; strategies for dealing with depletion of; substitutes for

Fostering Sustainable Behavior
(MacKenzie-Mohr and Smith)

France

Frank, Justin

Freud, Sigmund

Gage, Phineas

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

generation gap

genetic engineering

genetically modified crops

Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)

Gini index

Glendinning, Chellis

global warming.
see also
Climate Change

Gore, Al

government: after techno-collapse; and beginnings of political organization; and democracy; environmental legislation; and language; reaction to disaster; reaction to Peak Oil; and sustainability measures

GPI (Genuine Progress Indicator)

grain

Great Britain

The Greatest Generation
(Brokaw)

greenhouse gas emissions: from coal; concentrations by source; from fossil fuels; how much they need to be reduced; peak levels; strategies for reducing

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

growth v. sustainability

Haber-Bosch process

Hansen, James

happiness

Harris, Marvin

Hawkins, Louis W.

Heather, Peter

heavy oil

Herman, Judith

hippies

Hirsch, Robert

Holmgren, David

Hopkins, Rob

horticulture

Hubbard, Elbert

Hubbert, M. King

Huebner, Jonathan

human rights

Human Scale
(Sale)

hydrocarbons.
see
fossil fuels

ideological changes: away from fossil fuels; away from industrialization; from perpetual growth to sustainability; role of language in

Illich, Ivan

An Inconvenient Truth
(Gore)

Indian Line Farm

industrial design

industrialization (
see also
fossil fuels; techno-collapse): adapted to disasters; and crafts; history of; how it's changed humans; and industrial revolution; modern criticism of; plan for de-industrialization; as savior; weeding ourselves off

inventions

Iroquois

Irving, Judy

Jackson, Wes

Jeavons, John

Kelly, R. C.

Klare, Michael

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth

labor

Lahontan, Baron de

The Land Institute

land use

language: and belief in symbols; development; and economics; and environmental damage; and politics; and reason; and religion; role in civilization; and societal change

leisure time

Lerro, Bruce

lifestyle choices

The Limits to Growth
(Club of Rome)

local economies

logic

Looking Backward: 2000-1887
(Bellamy)

love

MacKenzie-Mohr, Doug

Macy, Joanna

magical thinking

Malthus, Thomas

Mandil, Claude

marketing.
see also
advertising

McLuckie, Benjamin

media

Mexico

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Mollison, Bill

money trading

morality

Morris, William

Moyers, Bill

Müller, Max

Mumford, Lewis

The Myth of the Machine
(Mumford)

mythology

natural gas

The Natural Step

nature

Nelson, Gaylord

Nixon, Richard

non-renewable resources.
see also
fossil fuels

nuclear power

oil (
see also
Peak Oil): as bulwark of US economy; level of dependency on; production levels; substitutes for; sustainability; and wars

Oil Depletion Protocol

oil shale

Oman

Ornstein, Robert

parrots

Pauli, Wolfgang

Peak Oil (
see also
psychology of peak oil/climate change; techno-collapse): benefits of cooperation with Climate Change; concerted campaign for; conflict with Climate Change; definition; depletionists' and their views; effects of; experts in; possible strategies for; predictions of when it will happen; psychological theories on; strategies for psychologically coping with; in US

Pepperberg, Irene

permaculture

petrochemicals

politics (
see also
government): after techno-collapse; beginnings of political organization; in a de-industrialized society; and greenhouse gas emissions; and the industrial revolution; and population explosion; and quasi-religious ideologies; role in changing society; and success of technology; and sustainability measures; in US

pollution

Poon, Wing-Chi

population: and A. Bartlett and I. Asimov; level through history; methods of controlling; and politics; and sustainability; and T. Malthus; and W. Stanton

post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

poverty.
see also
economic inequality

Prince, Samuel

progress as an idea

psychological maturity

psychology of peak oil/climate change: described as addiction and dependency; and mass behavior change; and post-traumatic stress disorder; and response to crisis; treated like grief

The Rapid Growth of Human Populations
, 1750-2000 (Stanton)

Rayner, Lisa

Reagan, Ronald

The Real Work
(Snyder)

Rees, William

religion: after techno-collapse; development; in politics

renewable resources.
see also
alternative energy sources

Robèrt, Karl-Henrik

Rockefeller, John D.

Rolfe, Douglas

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roycrofters

Ruskin, John

Russia (Soviet Union)

Sale, Kirkpatrick

Sasol

science, preservation of

scientific method, development of

September 11th, 2001

sequestration

Smith, William

Snyder, Gary

social marketing

social welfare

societal change (
see also
ideological changes; techno-collapse): and language; and politics

solar power

Soviet Union

specialization

species extinction

spirituality.
see also
religion

Stanton, William

starlings

Stephenson, George

Strauss, Leo

sustainability: axioms of; definition of; history of concept; and politics; v. growth

symbolism

Tainter, Joseph

tar sands

techno-collapse: aesthetic of; anger and violence during- and communications; description of; and environment; and government; J. Tainter's view of; and politics; severity of; suggestions for survival

technology.
see
industrialization; techno-collapse

Terkel, Studs

United States: agriculture; Baby Boom generation; energy production; envir¶nmental movement; food production; and Gross Domestic Product; hours spent on the job in; oil as bulwark of economy; politics

uranium

Victory Gardens

Vietnam War

violence.
see also
war

war: after techno-collapse; in civilized society; and connection to fossil fuels; Vietnam; World War II,

water: after techno-collapse; arctic ice melt; consumption levels; and glacier retreat; scarcity of fresh

Weber, Max

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
(Bittner)

women

World War II