The Crash Course: An Honest Approach to Facing the Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment

ISBN-13: 9781394168866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 336 str.

Chris Martenson

Spis treści

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction ixPart I How to Approach the Next Twenty Years 11 The Coming Storm 32 The Lens: How to See the Future 73 A World Worth Inheriting 114 Trust Yourself 14Part II Foundation 215 Dangerous Exponentials 236 Problems versus Predicaments 387 An Inconvenient Lie: The Truth About Growth 428 Complex Systems 479 Our Money System 5510 What Is Wealth? (Hint: It's Not Money) 69Part III Economy 7511 Debt 7712 The Great Credit Bubble 9013 Like a Moth to Flame: Our Destructive Tendency to Print 10014 Fuzzy Numbers 10915 Crumbling Before Our Eyes: The Story of Concrete 118Part IV Energy 12316 Energy and the Economy 12517 Peak Oil 14118 Shale Oil 16019 Necessary but Insufficient: Clean Energy, Nuclear, and Coal 16620 Why Technology Can't Fix This 191Part V Environment 19921 Minerals: Gone with the Wind 20122 Soil: Thin, Thinner, Gone 21123 Parched: The Coming Water Wars 21924 All Fished Out 22625 What Do You Mean We're Running Out of Sand? Strange but True 231Part VI Convergence 23326 Where Have All the Insects Gone? Silence of the Lamps 23527 The Bumpy Path to 2030 238Part VII What Should I Do? 24728 The Good News: We Already Have Everything We Need 24929 Closing the Book on Growth 25730 What Should I Do? 26031 Build Up Your Capital! 270Appendix 291Notes 293Index 303

O autorze

CHRIS MARTENSON, PhD (Duke), MBA (Cornell), is a former Vice President at SAIC, worked for Pfizer, and created the viral video series, The Crash Course, which has been viewed by millions of people and translated into 4 languages. He is a world-class communicator and dot-connector, a sought-after writer and speaker, and is the host of the online resilience community at peakprosperity.com.