Booklist: Pollution, Resource Depletion, Infrastructure, Transportation, Peak Minerals, Life after Fossil Fuels

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Pollution

  • G Pitron. The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies
  • T Colborn. Our Stolen Future: Are we threatening our fertility, survival?
  • J McCormick. Acid Earth: The Global Threat of Acid Pollution.
  • J Watts. When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China will save mankind–Or Destroy It
  • J Shapiro. Mao’s War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
  • Thomas Hayden. Trashing the Oceans
  • W Rathje. Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. What our garbage tells us about ourselves
  • D Fagin. Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry manipulates science, bends the law, and endangers your health

Resource depletion

Infrastructure

Transportation

Peak Minerals

Postcarbon life

  • A Friedemann. 2021. Life After Fossil Fuels 
  • T Thwaites. The toaster project: Build a simple electric appliance from scratch
  • J. Stratton.  1981. Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier
  • Greene. 2008. Horses at Work: Harnessing Power in Industrial America
  • R. Winston. Life in the Middle Ages.
  • Jean Gimpel.  Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages.
  • G Huppert.  After the Black Death: A Social History of Early Modern Europe
  • EA Wrigley. Energy and the English industrial revolution.
  • EA Wrigley. The path to sustained growth: England’s transition from an organic economy to an industrial society
  • R White.  It’s your misfortune and none of my own. A new history of the American West.
  • S Ambrose. Undaunted Courage.  Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West
  • R. Massie. Peter the Great: His Life and World
  • B Tuchman Distant Mirror: The calamitous fourteenth century.
  • M Holloway. Utopian Communities in America, 1680-1880
  • R Hine. California’s Utopian Colonies
  • DE Pitzer. America’s Communal Utopias
  • H. Norberg-Hodge. Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
  • R Ekirch. At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past
  • D Cordingly. Under the Black Flag. The Romance & the reality of life among the Pirates
  • A Light. Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors

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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