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Life Without Oil

Life Without Oil

Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future

by John Wright and Steve Hallett
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/06/2013
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This title provides a timely and intelligent look at how we can plan for a future without a dependence on oil and other fossil fuels. We have spent the last 200 years building a civilization on coal, and the last century building it bigger still on oil. Fossil fuels have been the wellspring of our complex, glorious modern world, but they are about to run out. And in order to survive, we must plan for a future without reliance on oil. But successful planning depends on a realistic assessment of our current situation, a deeper appreciation of limitations placed on our civilization and its growth by the natural world and its resources, and the development of renewable and sustainable energy sources. Timely and sobering, yet hopeful, this volume offers a realistic vision of the near future and the many important lessons about the limitations of our resources we desperately need to learn.
ISBN:
9781616144012
9781616144012
Category:
Sustainability
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-06-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Prometheus Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
435
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x13mm
Weight:
0.45kg
John Wright

John Wright is the author of the River Cottage Handbooks Mushrooms, Edible Seashore and Hedgerow. As well as writing for national publications, he often appears on the River Cottage series for Channel 4.

He gives lectures on natural history and every year he takes around fifty 'forays' showing people how to collect food - plants from the hedgerow, seaweeds and shellfish from the shore and mushrooms from pasture and wood. Over a period of twenty years he has taken around five hundred such forays.

Fungi are his greatest passion and he has thirty-five years' experience in studying them. John Wright is a member of the British Mycological Society and a Fellow of the Linnaean Society. He lives in rural West Dorset with his wife and two teenage daughters. 

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