Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World

Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (ISBN 978-0865715103) is a 2004 book by Richard Heinberg in which Heinberg discusses peak oil and its attendant implications for the global economy. Due to the dependence of industrialized society on cheap and readily available petroleum (fossil fuel oil), Heinberg argues that the post-peak period of global history is likely to be characterized by social and economic turmoil, disruption of trade, declining standard of living, and warfare.

Heinberg outlines four possible strategies nations could employ to respond to the economic challenges associated with declining oil production:

Last One Standing: Global competition for remaining resources
Powerdown: Global cooperation in reducing energy usage, conservation, resource management, and reducing population
Denial: Waiting, and hoping that some unforeseen element will solve the problem
Building Lifeboats: Preparing local areas to be sustainable in the event that the global economic project collapses

Heinberg fleshes out each of these strategies in detail and describes the current political and economic environment in terms of these elements.

External links

RichardHeinberg.com

References to Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World:

Peak oil

Core issues	Peak oil Mitigation of peak oil Predicting the timing of peak oil Hubbert peak theory Olduvai theory

Results/responses	Hirsch report Rimini protocol Price of petroleum 2000s energy crisis Energy crisis Export Land Model Food vs. fuel Oil reserves Pickens Plan Simple living Swing producer Renewable energy commercialization Permaculture

People	Albert Allen Bartlett Colin J. Campbell John Michael Greer David Goodstein Richard Heinberg M. King Hubbert James Kunstler Jean Laherrère Jeremy Leggett Dale Allen Pfeiffer Richard Rainwater Michael C. Ruppert Matthew Simmons Richard C. Duncan Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Books	The End of Oil The Long Emergency Out of Gas The Party's Over Power Down Beyond Oil Twilight in the Desert

Documentary films	A Crude Awakening Collapse The End of Suburbia Oil Factor PetroApocalypse Now? How Cuba Survived Peak Oil What a Way to Go Gashole Fuel Escape from Suburbia Crude (2007 film)

Organizations	The Oil Drum Energy Watch Group ODAC OPEC OAPEC IEA IRENA Post Carbon Institute REN21 Transition town

Other peaks	Car Coal Copper Food Gas Gold Minerals Phosphorus Soil Uranium Water Wheat Wood

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Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World

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