The Future Is Not What It Used to Be : Climate Change and Energy Scarcity.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. The Transitory Nature of Industrial Society -- The Human Predicament -- The Ghost of Thomas Malthus -- Limits to Growth -- Common Objections -- Bottom Line -- Chapter 2. Climate Change and Energy Scarcity -- Climate Change -- The Climate-Energy Nexus -- Energy Scarcity -- Fueling the Future -- The Energy Quagmire -- Bottom Line -- Chapter 3. What the Climate Can Change -- The IPCC Approach -- Eco-Scarcity -- The Climate Watershed -- Back to the Future -- Recalling Distant Memories -- The Ancient Near East, 11,000-1000 BC -- The Medieval Far North, 900-1500 AD -- Glimpsing the Future -- Bottom Line -- Chapter 4. When Energy Runs Short -- How to Study Disruptive Energy Scarcity -- Predatory Militarism: Japan, 1918 - 1945 -- Totalitarian Retrenchment: North Korea, 1990s -- Socioeconomic Adaptation: Cuba, 1990s -- Peak Oil Trajectories -- Energy Transition? -- Peak Oil Scenario -- Bottom Line -- Chapter 5. The Struggle over Knowledge -- Three Kinds of Science -- Energy Studies: Normal Science under Siege -- The Study of Climate Change: Post-Normal Science in Action -- The Double Bind of Post-Normal Science -- Chapter 6. The Moral Economy of Inaction -- Ethical Discounting -- Collective Action Problems -- The Twisted Rationality of Denial -- Bad Things Go Together -- Bottom Line -- Chapter 7. Where to Go from Here -- Resilience Thinking -- Ontological Securitization -- Bottom Line -- Notes -- References -- Index.

A hard look at the twin challenges of climate change and energy scarcity that examines historical precedents and allows no room for complacency.

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