{"product_id":"9781550925845","title":"Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels","description":"\u003cp\u003eClimate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy \"plug-and-play\" solution, author Richard Heinberg suggests instead that we are in for a wild ride; a \"civilization reboot\" on a scale similar to the agricultural and industrial revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfterburn\u003c\/i\u003e consists of fifteen essays exploring various aspects of the twenty-first century migration away from fossil fuels including:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eShort-term political and economic factors that impede broad-scale, organized efforts to adapt  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe origin of longer-term trends (such as consumerism), that have created a way of life that seems \"normal\" to most Americans, but is actually unprecedented, highly fragile, and unsustainable  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePotential opportunities and sources of conflict that are likely to emerge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the inevitability and desirability of more locally organized economies to the urgent need to preserve our recent cultural achievements and the futility of pursuing economic growth above all, \u003ci\u003eAfterburn\u003c\/i\u003e offers cutting-edge perspectives and insights that challenge conventional thinking about our present, our future, and the choices in our hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Heinberg\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, the author of eleven previous books including \u003ci\u003eThe Party's Over\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe End of Growth\u003c\/i\u003e. He is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Society Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175210172656,"sku":"9781550925845","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550925845_p0.jpg?v=1769899068","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550925845","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}