Not the Future We Ordered : Peak Oil, Psychology, and the Myth of Progress / by John Michael Greer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michael Greer, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hubbert peak theory.

Petroleum reserves--Forecasting.

Petroleum reserves.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Language Note:

English

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 can scale up extensively or quickly enough to replace dwindling oil supplies. Not The Future We Ordered is the first study of the psychological dimensions of that decision and its consequences, as a case study in the social psychology of collective failure, and as an issue with which psychologists and therapists will be confronted repeatedly in the years ahead.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ONE The unmentionable crisis; TWO The religion of progress; THREE The psychology of the progress myth; FOUR Peak oil as deviance; FIVE The five stages of peak oil; SIX Facing an unwelcome future; REFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91665-5

0-429-90242-5

0-429-47765-1

1-299-05103-0

1-78241-068-6

9780429477652

OCLC:

827207634