Booklist: Limits to Growth, Overpopulation, Collapse, War, Extinction

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Limits to Growth

  • Donella Meadows. 2004. The Limits to Growth: The 30 year update      
  • V Smil. Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production.
  • K Gever. Beyond Oil: The threat to food & fuel in the coming decades           
  • D. & M. Fisher. 2001. The Nitrogen Bomb.  Discover magazine      
  • William Catton.  Overshoot        
  • M Wackernagel. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
  • L Garrett. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance.
  • G Slade. Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America 
  • Hopfenberg. Human population numbers as a function of food supply

Overpopulation                    

Collapse

Collapse, Russia                   

Collapse, North Korea      

Collapse, Venezuela

Collapse, Cuba

Collapse, Roman Empire

Collapse, Civil War, Refugees

D Mikhail. The Beekeeper. Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq 

Nuclear War

War

  • SA LeBlanc. Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage.
  • N Ohler. Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
  • R O’Harrow. The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln’s General, Master Builder of the Union Army
  • J Weatherford. Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World
  • J Weatherford. Secret History of the Mongol Queens
  • L Kleveman, The New Great Game:  Blood and Oil in Central Asia.
  • M Klare. Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict.
  • M MacMillan. War How Conflict Shaped Us   
  • C Johnson. The Sorrows Of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic.  
  • J Matloff. No friends but the mountains: Dispatches from the world’s violent highlands
  • P Coffee. American arsenal. A century of waging war.
  • D Vine. Base Nation: How U.S. Military bases abroad harm America and the World
  • A Rashid.  Taliban. Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia.
  • P Turchin. 2 books: Secular Cycles. War and Peace and War. 
  • D Berreby. Us and Them. Understanding Your Tribal Mind. 
  • A Gat. War in Human Civilization. 
  • L Keeley. War before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage.
  • J Waller.  Becoming Evil. How ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing. 
  • P Gourevitch. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. 
  • D Goldhagen. Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans & the Holocaust. 1997
  • Wrangham & Peterson. Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence. 1997
  • M Ghiglieri. The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Male Violence
  • R Rhodes. Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist.  
  • G MacDonogh. After the Reich. The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation.
  • C. Andrew. Secret world: A history of intelligence.  980 pages
  • M. Matthews. Head strong: how psychology is revolutionizing war
  • A Goldsworthy. Complete Roman Army 

CYBERWAR

What it’s like to be a soldier

  • Guy Sajer. The Forgotten Soldier  
  • K Marlantes. What it is like to go to war.
  • David Finkel. The Good Soldiers      
  • Peter Goldman. Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did to Us 
  • MD Matthews. Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War  

Extinction

Alice Friedemann  www.energyskeptic.com  Author of Life After Fossil Fuels: A Reality Check on Alternative Energy; When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, Barriers to Making Algal Biofuels, & “Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers”.  Women in ecology  Podcasts: WGBH, Planet: Critical, Crazy Town, Collapse Chronicles, Derrick Jensen, Practical Prepping, Kunstler 253 &278, Peak Prosperity,  Index of best energyskeptic posts         

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