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- Release Year
- 2023
- ISBN
- 9781394168866
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
1394168861
ISBN-13
9781394168866
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4057265773
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Crash Course : an Honest Approach to Facing the Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Finance / Financial Risk Management, Economic History, Economic Conditions, Development / Economic Development
Genre
Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-056843
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
338.973/07
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Part I How to Approach the Next Twenty Years 1 1 The Coming Storm 3 2 The Lens: How to See the Future 7 3 A World Worth Inheriting 11 4 Trust Yourself 14 Part II Foundation 21 5 Dangerous Exponentials 23 6 Problems versus Predicaments 38 7 An Inconvenient Lie: The Truth About Growth 42 8 Complex Systems 47 9 Our Money System 55 10 What Is Wealth? (Hint: It's Not Money) 69 Part III Economy 75 11 Debt 77 12 The Great Credit Bubble 90 13 Like a Moth to Flame: Our Destructive Tendency to Print 100 14 Fuzzy Numbers 109 15 Crumbling Before Our Eyes: The Story of Concrete 118 Part IV Energy 123 16 Energy and the Economy 125 17 Peak Oil 141 18 Shale Oil 160 19 Necessary but Insufficient: Clean Energy, Nuclear, and Coal 166 20 Why Technology Can't Fix This 191 Part V Environment 199 21 Minerals: Gone with the Wind 201 22 Soil: Thin, Thinner, Gone 211 23 Parched: The Coming Water Wars 219 24 All Fished Out 226 25 What Do You Mean We're Running Out of Sand? Strange but True 231 Part VI Convergence 233 26 Where Have All the Insects Gone? Silence of the Lamps 235 27 The Bumpy Path to 2030 238 Part VII What Should I Do? 247 28 The Good News: We Already Have Everything We Need 249 29 Closing the Book on Growth 257 30 What Should I Do? 260 31 Build Up Your Capital! 270 Appendix 291 Notes 293 Index 303
Synopsis
Discover how and why the world's crises are interconnected and what you can do to prepare for the next one The world is experiencing a series of crises. In The Crash Course: An Honest Approach to Facing the Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment , Revised Edition, veteran executive and strategist Chris Martenson delivers an incisive and eye-opening exploration that explains why the reader needs to understand that it is the interconnectedness of the various crises that matters most. From energy shortages to climate instability, financial crises, supply chain disruptions, pandemics, war, and crop failures, you'll discover the common factor that is driving them all and how to adapt to volatile new realities and safeguard your own personal wealth, health, and community. In the book, you'll find effective solutions for living with unpredictability and change, as well as: A workable framework for understanding the "how" and "why" of dramatic societal, environmental, and economic transformation A rich set of solutions, complete with examples, you can use to draw inspiration and motivation to act in your own life An expansive amount of new material, fully updated since the last edition A transformative and thought-provoking strategic playbook for managing increasingly unexpected events, crises, and revolutions, The Crash Course, Revised Edition is an essential resource for anyone concerned about their retirement savings, the world's environment, as well as anyone hoping to become more independent and self-reliant.
LC Classification Number
HC110.E5M375 2023
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