From the Book - Regular Print - Second edition, revised and updated.
Chapter 1 Energy, Nature and Society 9 --
Energy and Earth: The Rules of the Game 10 --
Energy in Ecosystems: Eating and Being Eaten 14 --
Social Leveraging Strategies: How to Gain an Energy Subsidy 20 --
Complexity and Collapse: Societies in Energy Deficit 33 --
Applied Socio-Ecohistory: Explaining the American Success Story 38 --
Chapter 2 Party Time: The Historic Interval of Cheap, Abundant Energy 45 --
Energy in Medieval Europe 47 --
Petroleum Miracle, Part I 57 --
Electrifying the World 60 --
Petroleum Miracle, Part II 64 --
Oil, Geopolitics, and the Global Economy: 1950-1980 73 --
1980-2001: Lost Opportunities and the Prelude to Catastrophe 78 --
Chapter 3 Lights Out: Approaching the Historic Interval's End 85 --
M. King Hubbert: Energy Visionary 95 --
Zeroing In on the Date of Peak 111 --
Hubbert's Critics: The Cornucopian Argument 118 --
Who Is Right? Why Does It Matter? 133 --
Chapter 4 Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can the Party Continue? 137 --
Biomass, Biodiesel, and Ethanol 171 --
Fusion, Cold Fusion, and Free-Energy Devices 175 --
Conservation: Efficiency and Curtailment 178 --
Chapter 5 A Banquet of Consequences 185 --
Economy - Physical and Financial 187 --
Food and Agriculture 193 --
Heating and Cooling 198 --
Information Storage, Processing, and Transmission 203 --
National Politics and Social Movements 204 --
Geopolitics of Energy-Resource Competition 210 --
Chapter 6 Managing the Collapse: Strategies and Recommendations 225 --
You, Your Home, and Your Family 228 --
Afterword to the Revised Edition 263 --
Oil's Depressing Outlook 266 --
Significant New Reports 266 --
Curse of Free Energy 270 --
Where the Real Hope Lies 274.