1st Edition

Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil, Psychology, and the Myth of Progress

By John Michael Greer Copyright 2013
158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
The unmentionable crisis , The religion of progress , The psychology of the progress myth , Peak oil as deviance , The five stages of peak oil , Facing an unwelcome future

Biography

John Michael Greer