Crash Course The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment

Name: Crash Course The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment
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ISBN: 9780470927649

ISBN-10: 047092764X

ISBN-13: 9780470927649

Edition: 2011

Authors: Chris Martenson

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Chris Martenson has an MBA in Finance from Cornell, a Ph.D. from Duke, has been a research scientist in the field of nuerotoxicology, a former VP of Pfizer, and started his own investing website. He and his family lived in a 5 bedroom house on the water in Mystic, CT. Life was good.In 2003, he gave it all up.Chris had a foreshadowing of some of the economic events that ultimately caused the recession, became disillusioned with where our future was heading overall, quit his job, sold his big house, and moved his family into a small rental house in the woods. Chris took his money out of the hands of his investors and began making his own investments, with returns that exceed that of his…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 4/5/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.65" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



How to Approach the Next Twenty Years



The Coming Storm



The Lens: How to See the Future



A World Worth Inheriting



Trust Yourself



Foundation



Dangerous Exponentials



An Inconvenient Lie: The Truth about Growth



Our Money System



Problems and Predicaments



What Is Wealth? (Hint: It's Not Money)



Economy



Debt



The Great Credit Bubble



Like a Moth to Flame: Our Destructive Tendency to Print



Fuzzy Numbers



Starting the Race with Our Shoes Tied Together



Energy



Energy and the Economy



Peak Oil



Necessary but Insufficient: Coal, Nuclear, and Alternatives



Why Technology Can't Fix This



Environment



Minerals: Gone with the Wind



Soil: Thin, Thinner, Gone



Parched: The Coming Water Wars



All Fished Out



Convergence



Convergence: Why the Twenty-Teens Will Be Difficult



Closing the Book on Growth



Future Scenarios



What Should I Do?



The Good News: We Already Have Everything We Need



What Should I Do?



The Opportunities


Appendix


Notes


Index