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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines Hardcover – October 16, 2007

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The twentieth century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption, and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, the impact of humans on the environment increased dramatically.

The twenty-first century ushered in an era of declines, in a number of crucial parameters:

  • Global oil, natural gas, and coal extraction
  • Yearly grain harvests
  • Climate stability
  • Population
  • Economic growth
  • Fresh water
  • Minerals and ores, such as copper and platinum

To adapt to this profoundly different world, we must begin now to make radical changes to our attitudes, behaviors, and expectations.

Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological, and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. This latest book from Richard Heinberg, author of three of the most important books on Peak Oil, touches on the most important aspects of the human condition at this unique moment in time.

A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book tells how we might make the transition from the Age of Excess to the Era of Modesty with grace and satisfaction, while preserving the best of our collective achievements. A must-read for individuals, business leaders, and policymakers who are serious about effecting real change.

Richard Heinberg is a journalist, lecturer, and the author of seven books, including The Party’s Over, Powerdown, and The Oil Depletion Protocol. He is one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators.

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    October 16, 2007
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    6.3 x 0.8 x 9.3 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    086571598X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0865715981
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  • James McWilliams
    5.0 out of 5 stars Red-Blue Divide
    Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2008
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    I bought and read Heinberg's "The Party's Over" and "Powerdown" as soon as they were available, but I held off buying and reading "Peak Everything" on account of the lukewarm and critical reviews. I needn't have waited.

    I was expecting a catalogue of resource declines, but Peak Everything turned out to be more of a philosophical analysis of where we are and where we are headed, and I was not disappointed.

    The book is worth its price for the final chapter in which Heinberg discusses the connection between language and religion. That helped me to understand how people have gone so blindly into overshoot, and I needed to understand that.

    Reviews of the book are almost evenly divided, and in retrospect I think the division mirrors the political and cultural divide in the United States today. The Reds scoff at the book; the Blues applaud. In this case, I feel that the Blues are the ones who have their thinking caps on.

    I would recommend this book to anyone who really wants to know where we are, how we came to be here, and where we likely are going.
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  • DB
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2021
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    Amazing book! Reading again. Excellent insight into issues of American culture and sustainability.
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  • Concerned American
    1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother with this book
    Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2011
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    I bought this book hoping to learn where the critical shortages are and what solutions there might be to these problems. You would think that this is what this book would be about but surprisingly it is not. All I got from this was a lot of extremely flawed philosophical tripe filled with all sorts of assumptions that don't play out in the real world. The author asserts, with little or no evidence, that scientific progress will soon come to a halt because all the great discoveries have been already made. I don't know what world he is living in but this ridiculous claim is reminiscent of the statement by the head of the U.S. Patents Office in the 1860s that said office should be shut down because scientific and technical progress have reached it's zenith and there will soon be nothing left to be patent. His gloom and doom predictions of resource exhaustion remind me of the Club of Rome's prediction that we would have run out of copper which was proven totally wrong with the unforeseen development of fiber optics. He claims that all technological fixes are doomed to failure with the confidence of a wizard behind a crystal ball and claims that most all such progress is one step forward and two steps back. His "solution" is a full retreat from industrial civilization which is something that no one in his or her right mind could ever conceive of happening. How this could be done without mass disease and starvation is anyone's guess. How human beings would suddenly give up on their dreams of a better life and head for the wilderess is equally specious. Even the very assumption that such an abandonment of our advanced society and a return to the primitive existence would be a solution to our ecological crisis rather than an actual exasorbation of the problem is something that is not addressed. The fact of the matter that a such primativist claptrap falls flat in the face of reality. It is exactly in the most primative parts of the world that the population explosion is out of control and that ecosystem destruction is at it's worst.

    Peak everything is a real problem which can and must be solved. No doubt such solutions require a new paradym but the advocacy of going back to nature en mass is nothing but a cop out.
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  • Rick the Sailor
    4.0 out of 5 stars The future as we anticipate it
    Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2012
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    A depressing book, but one that presents an accurate projection of our overuse of resources. Scares you into becoming a believer. An enjoyable, easy read.
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  • D. McDevitt
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not much new here
    Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2007
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    With such a great title I expected more than a few disparate essays rehashing topics already thoroughly covered in previous books. I had hoped for some actual ideas about "making the transition with grace". I didn't find anything of practical use.

    I would recommend Overshoot by William Catton for thorough explanation of the ideas that Heinberg glosses over.
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  • Mary Brown
    5.0 out of 5 stars There must be another way to live...
    Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2013
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    Richard has done an incredible job of documenting "This is how it is". We have built a complex and confusing world that is impossible to maintain. We know there is another way to live without destroying ourselves and this beautiful planet!
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  • Jesse Rorabaugh
    2.0 out of 5 stars Wild Speculation
    Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2008
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    This book starts with a completely reasonable premise. There is every reason to believe him when he states that the world will hit peak oil at some point in the next two decades and no one knows the exact date it will hit. It may have already hit in 2005. That however is where the rationality ends the rest of the book is wild speculation.

    For one thing he is completely biased towards his way of fixing the problem. A book on energy depletion should at least mention the two most abundant fuels on earth: Thorium, which can run enough nuclear reactors for our entire society to survive for hundreds of years, and Deuterium, which could power enough fusion reactors to keep our society running for billions of years. Anyone who is seriously worried about resource depletion should be promoting more research and development into these technologies, rather than wallowing in pity for the human race. Even worse, he doesn't mention one of the best sources of renewable energy, geothermal power. Perhaps he covers these issues in one of his other books, but if so it is safe to say you can safely read that book and ignore this one.

    Instead of focusing on how we can avoid our society from facing real issues he focuses on the bad things that could potentially happen. It really seems from his tone that he actually wants our society to collapse. In the end the book is little more than wishful thinking on his part. If you want to read a rational book on the subject of peak oil I would avoid this book, and read anything by Kenneth S. Duffeyes.
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  • H.Hieronimi
    5.0 out of 5 stars great book, interesting topics covered
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2008
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    I like this collection of essays, easy to read, very inspiring, and yet not so pessimisticly stuck in the Collapse Szenarios like in some of his previous books. recommended reading from an important author in this field, covering an interesting diversity if topics realated to peak oil/ energy descent....
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  • Chickpea
    5.0 out of 5 stars Quite a must read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 27, 2015
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    Great book a warning for the future.
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  • Chris P
    5.0 out of 5 stars Richard Heinberg's Best Book
    Reviewed in Canada on October 18, 2012
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    Richard presents a comprehensive outline of the challenges society faces today regarding resources and our current way of life. Everything he states is backed up with lots of highly reputable figures, charts, graphs, etc. He is a realist and sees the problems this world is already encountering and will continue to encounter. Our current production and consumption society is just not sustainable. It's not very hard to see. Economics is a religion. It poses as a science, holds on to theories and formulas that it passes along as truths yet don't reflect reality, and is based on premises that simply are false, such as infinite growth, etc. It ignores very real evidence that it doesn't incorporate into it's system, such as "externalities" like environmental and human health degradation, and its high priests aka economists, can't ever acknowledge when they are wrong. This book is a wake up to anyone who still believes in the religion of economics, and it's a call to change the way we live. It's doable, not as hard as so many think, and getting away from the corporate consumption model of society that we have now should make the world and our lives a better place.
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  • ladymarmalade
    3.0 out of 5 stars ピーク・オイルを理解するためには優先順位は高くないエッセイ本
    Reviewed in Japan on December 6, 2009
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    ピーク・オイルの論客であるリチャード・ハインバーグが２００７年に出版した著書。ピーク・オイルのことを勉強しようと思って買ったのだが、内容はタイトルほどの迫力はなく、彼のエッセイ集であった。もう少し、体系的な内容を期待していたので、そういう点では落胆したが、内容自体は興味深く、表面的ではあるがピーク・オイルの問題点などは理解できた。とはいえ、これ一冊だけではピーク・オイルのことを十分に理解することはできない。エッセイは１１編収められており、極めて軽いものからなかなか読み応えのあるものまでその内容は幅広い。まあ、読んで決して無駄とは思わないが、エネルギー問題などを勉強するうえでは優先順位は決して高くない本であるとは思われる。
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  • AC
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in Canada on April 8, 2016
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    Great book! Received right away.
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  • Bandidoz
    2.0 out of 5 stars Not at all what I expected
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2007
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    With the title, "Peak Everything", I had imagined this book would provide some detail along the lines of the "Earth's Natural Wealth - An Audit" article in New Scientist issue #2605 ("World Stripped Bare") along with some analysis on the consequential impacts on efforts to mitigate the combined effects of fossil fuel depletion and Climate Change. I really looked forward to its release. Surely it is reasonable to expect such content according to the given title? Alas, no such luck.

    Instead, what's provided is a series of musings that Heinberg has written during his Peak Oil Campaign touring. As always, his writing is lucid and most of the metaphors presented are simultaneously interesting yet useless for depletionists (e.g. the commonalities between human and parrot societies). I couldn't help but feel as though Heinberg has decided that, due to (unspecified) limits of availability of precious metals, that the only realistic future is a return to old-school agriculture and that all modern technology and knowledge will disappear. Unlike "The Party's Over", which I couldn't put down, I really had to persist with this book. The introduction, as well as some of the content towards the end of the book is of some use, but I still can't help feeling disappointed with it.

    Much as I would like to, I really can't think of anyone whom I'd recommend this book. I would still direct novice depletionists towards "The Party's Over", experienced depletionists will already be familiar with most of the blog discussions from which a fair degree of this book has been stimulated ("The Oil Drum" / "Transition Culture" etc).

    I would really like to see Richard Heinberg get away from the bloggers and once again delve into some new information and statistics that will be useful to depletionists. Perhaps release a 3rd edition of "The Party's Over", including a section on real, quantitative limits of various materials. He is in danger of disappearing up his own backside with his persistent over-analysis of old material. Heinberg is ruminating into diminishing-returns.
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