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Twilight of Abundance: Why Life in the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short Hardcover – Illustrated, March 24, 2014

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Baby boomers enjoyed the most benign period in human history: fifty years of relative peace, cheap energy, plentiful grain supply, and a warming climate due to the highest solar activity for 8,000 years. The party is over—prepare for the twilight of abundance.

David Archibald reveals the grim future the world faces on its current trajectory: massive fuel shortages, the bloodiest warfare in human history, a global starvation crisis, and a rapidly cooling planet. Archibald combines pioneering science with keen economic knowledge to predict the global disasters that could destroy civilization as we know it—disasters that are waiting just around the corner.

But there’s good news, too: We can have a good future if we prepare for it. Advanced, civilized countries can have a permanently high standard of living if they choose to invest in the technologies that will get them there. Archibald, a climate scientist as well as an inventor and a financial specialist, explains which scientific breakthroughs can save civilization in the coming crisis—if we can cut through the special interest opposition to these innovations and allow free markets to flourish.
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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1621571580
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Customers find the writing style well-written, easy to read, and appreciated for its clarity and forthrightness. They also say the science is clear and easy to understand.

"...This book is a good read, well-written, educational, and interesting. The author comments often on culture, history and politics...." Read more

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tahke
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a good read, well-written
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2015
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Published in 2014, the same year as John Casey's Dark Winter, David Archibald's book brings another serious warning on the severe climate years anticipated in present Solar Cycle 24 and upcoming 25. In similar language, both authors disdain proclamations of Al Gore, and other pseudoscientists, which have convinced an eager media, and the public, that mankind and his industries are creating climate change and producing global warming. (GW) They question actions of President Obama, who uses the GW threat to justify executive actions, taxes and funding to further his energy agenda and bridle coal and oil industries. The authors say our government should be preparing for realities of dangerous cold years rather than promoting fraudulent endorsement of manmade GW.

Archibald quickly moves on to his twilight theme, a hungry world. He cites convincing statistics on the vital grain field production of Canada and America, notes world dependence on grain, and provides a scenario of crop failure under a cold climate period that might mirror the Dalton Minimum at the beginning of the 19th century. He emphasizes the plight of MENA countries, stretching from Afghanistan to Morocco, whose import of grain is half their food supply, presenting graphic picture of famine and regress to Stone Age.

This book is a good read, well-written, educational, and interesting. The author comments often on culture, history and politics. He offers more to fear than climate change, including reproduction of a paper by Wing Commander Peter Mills (Ret.), Royal Australian Air Force, in which Mills describes a fanciful but possible future: A massive Dec. 7, 2020 attack on the United States by China.

Archibald writes about energy needs, present and future. He discusses thorium molten-salt reactors as the ultimate solution. At the end, he provides his own worst-case cold-climate starvation scenario, but he believes we can survives, at least in America, by acting instead of waiting.
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Gideon A. Dunkley
4.0 out of 5 stars Good book with interesting insights but there arent as many ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2014
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Good book with interesting insights but there arent as many references to primary sources of information as I would like... I dont want to just take an authors word unsubstantiated by corroborating references. Nevertheless, I appreciated his clarity and forthrightness, and I certainly appreciate his urgency. Some ideas of his though I think are impractical... like replacing gasoline with liquified natural gas for internal combustion engines. An explicitly advocated energy policy with an indispensable reliance on nuclear power at a time when the current legacy of radioactive waste is abominable and unsettled is only going to impede progress into the 21st century with a reasonable standard of living. I am not anti nuclear, but in my mind niclear is guilty until proven innocent, so to speak. I think his analysis of the climate change movement is penetrating and his examination of China is eye opening. This book isnt the final word on these crucial matters, but definately a good place to start.
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Johnson L. Fisher
5.0 out of 5 stars A View of the Big Picture Future for our Civilization.
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2023
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This is an excellent book discussing what may be in our future from the big picture standpoint. Whether you think we can control the climate or that it will change, there are resource considerations such as energy, food, and water serving a growing well armed population that will require more focus than Carbon Dioxide, or crisis for the week, tunnel vision. The discussions in Twilight of Abundance should be applied to our civilization's current situation even if our climate doesn't change. The book doesn't declare future doom but offers considerations for avoiding that outcome.

For much of the last century we have enjoyed so much abundance that we have time to argue and focus on relatively small things. Yes there are wars but the human civilization has made great progress in spite of weather or climate using the energy abundance that is easy to take for granted. This book explores what might be in our future and the things we should consider doing now so that when, or if, the energy and food abundances are no longer there that we are prepared for the range of possibilities, rather than assuming that our future is solely dependent on carbon dioxide concentrations.

We know that the planet has survived with healthy and abundant biodiversity with much more CO2 and higher temperatures than we can expect in the next generation. However we are focusing trillions of dollars on short term and dramatic changes that may make us more vulnerable to the return of climates that this planet has exhibited. Twilight of Abundance discusses some ways our civilization can still prosper with energy, peace, and food for all who want to work and plan rather than profit on fear and religious and political division.
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Wayne Delbeke
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in Canada on January 30, 2017
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Excellent book. Have read it more than once and now my son's family is reading it.
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Rudy Manchego
5.0 out of 5 stars Solar Cooling Cycles and lots more interesting facts
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 17, 2014
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Very good. Makes a sound and cogent case for the decline of abundance. I particularly liked the chapters on global cooling which is fast approaching, based on the work of many, many eminent scientists, (not an incestuous, left-wing political party, making its members very very rich - which is what the IPCC represents.....what about the 97% consensus? all scientists need grants and these are withdrawn if politically incorrect science is approached, all science journals are part of the 97% left wing American further education establishment....need I go on - it's all a fraud) Global warming is based on models and the erroneous belief that carbon dioxide is a major driver of climate - anyway the predictions made by the IPCC and others have proved hopelessly wrong which is A FACT, but why ? the discussions about solar cycles really convinced me and led to further investigations.
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John R. Haneman
5.0 out of 5 stars Twilight of Abundance - Amazon.com - kindle edition
Reviewed in Australia on June 17, 2014
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What an inspired, thoughtful and entertaining book. A must read category for all and sundry. It should be a compulsory text
for all high school students. I cannot surpass the review written by Stephen Harper - who has skillfully put down in words my very own thoughts, and conclusions, for this publication.
On the subject of "man made climate change", President Obama (a lawyer) recently said that climate change deniers are in denial of the scientific proof. On the contrary, most climate change deniers (relative to man made) are scientists, who say that the proponents of man made climate change themselves, are in denial of scientific proof. When it comes to scientific conclusions, who should one believe, the lawyer, or the scientist ? For me, the answer is, the scientist.
In Australia, where I live, on "man made climate change", we have had the same sort of nonsense espoused by our (thankfully) former, Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, (a lawyer) backed up by another of her ministers, Penny Wong, (a lawyer), who put into practice, policies supporting renewable energy through (inefficient) wind farms and discouragement, of coal based electrical generation by legislating burdensome carbon taxes, with predictable results of higher energy costs, leading to inflationary price increases (cement Etc) and loss of jobs in manufacturing and allied support industries, and, dare i say, absolutely no evidence that these policies had any impact whatsoever, on our climate. Pseudo science is still alive and thriving - and i reminded that
not a great deal has changed in society, from the middle ages, when pseudo science conclusions burnt people alive, on the belief they were witches, and so on.
In his book, David Archibald, a scientist by training, rubbishes claims, that man is responsible for climate change, and supports his views with compelling factual information.
If there is a message for President Obama, and his contemporaries, it is this:-
Don't worry about (the myth of) man made climate change; but worry, instead, of consequences of over population.
John Haneman, Sydney, Australia
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Barry J. Scott
5.0 out of 5 stars Every thinking Australian must read
Reviewed in Australia on November 12, 2021
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Whilst it was written in 2013, its a must read for any thinking person to get a balanced view of climate change and the world — a thought provoking book
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Barry & Frances Pengelly
4.0 out of 5 stars As a contrast to global warming and all that entails ...
Reviewed in Canada on November 23, 2015
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As a contrast to global warming and all that entails, this author presents a different view. He plots solar cycles and the advent of a mini ice age that will soon reduce the arable land in the world by catastrophic margins. He points out that this would nearly be a repeat of events that have occurred over the millennium.
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