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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Energy, Nature and Society | |
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| Energy and Earth: The Rules of the Game | |
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| Energy in Ecosystems: Eating and Being Eaten | |
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| Social Leveraging Strategies: How to Gain an Energy Subsidy | |
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| Complexity and Collapse: Societies in Energy Deficit | |
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| Applied Socio-Ecohistory: Explaining the American Success Story | |
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| Party Time: The Historic Interval of Cheap, Abundant Energy | |
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| Energy in Medieval Europe | |
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| The Coal Revolution | |
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| The Petroleum Miracle, Part I | |
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| Electrifying the World | |
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| The Petroleum Miracle, Part II | |
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| Oil, Geopolitics, and the Global Economy: 1950-1980 | |
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| 1980-2001: Lost Opportunities and the Prelude to Catastrophe | |
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| Lights Out: Approaching the Historic Interval's End | |
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| On to Mesopotamia | |
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| The Ground Giving Way | |
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| M. King Hubbert: Energy Visionary | |
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| Hubbert's Legacy | |
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| Zeroing In on the Date of Peak | |
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| Hubbert's Critics: The Cornucopian Argument | |
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| Who Is Right? Why Does It Matter? | |
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| Non-Petroleum Energy Sources: Can the Party Continue? | |
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| Natural Gas | |
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| Coal | |
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| Nuclear Power | |
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| Wind | |
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| Solar Power | |
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| Hydrogen | |
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| Hydroelectricity | |
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| Geothermal Power | |
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| Tides and Waves | |
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| Biomass, Biodiesel, and Ethanol | |
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| Fusion, Cold Fusion, and Free-Energy Devices | |
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| Conservation: Efficiency and Curtailment | |
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| A Banquet of Consequences | |
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| The Economy - Physical and Financial | |
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| Transportation | |
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| Food and Agriculture | |
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| Heating and Cooling | |
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| The Environment | |
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| Public Health | |
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| Information Storage, Processing, and Transmission | |
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| National Politics and Social Movements | |
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| The Geopolitics of Energy-Resource Competition | |
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| Taking It All In | |
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| Managing the Collapse: Strategies and Recommendations | |
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| You, Your Home, and Your Family | |
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| Your Community | |
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| The Nation | |
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| The World | |
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| A Final Word | |
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| Afterword to the Revised Edition | |
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| The Saudi Enigma | |
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| Shell Game | |
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| Oil's Depressing Outlook | |
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| Significant New Reports | |
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| The Iraq Quagmire | |
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| The Curse of Free Energy | |
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| Where the Real Hope Lies | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |