Friedrichs, Jörg <br/><br/>
The future is not what it used to be :   climate change and energy scarcity / 
 Future is not what it used to be : climate change and energy scarcity. 
Jörg Friedrichs. 
 - Cambridge, Massachusetts :  MIT Press,  c2013. 
 - xi, 223 pages :  illustrations ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pp.189-216) and index. 
<br/><br/>The Transitory nature of industrial society -- Climate change and energy scarcity -- What the climate can change -- When energy runs short -- The struggle over knowledge -- The Moral economy of inaction -- Where to go from here. 
<br/><br/> ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY & PROTOCOLS. The future is not what it used to be because we can no longer rely on the comforting assumption that it will resemble the past. Past abundance of fuel, for example, does not imply unending abundance. Infinite growth on a finite planet is not possible. In this book, Jorg Friedrichs argues that industrial society itself is transitory, and he examines the prospects for our civilization's coming to terms with its two most imminent choke points: climate change and energy scarcity. He offers a thorough and accessible account of these two challenges as well as the linkages between them. Friedrichs contends that industrial civilization cannot outlast our ability to burn fossil fuels and that the demise of industrial society would entail cataclysmic change, including population decreases. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262019248 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012045994 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Climatic changes<br/>Global environmental change<br/>Power resources--Environmental aspects<br/>Energy policy<br/>Environmental policy
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC903  / F91 2013