Our world runs on fossil fuels. It is estimated that oil production will drop to half of the peak amount around 2030. What will happen as we reach the point where there is no practical way to get whatever is still in the ground?
Fossil fuels are in decline, but recoverable reserves of metals are also becoming less plentiful. Electricity will be in decline worldwide because it is produced mainly with fossil fuels.
Without mechanization, irrigation, and synthetic fertilizer, yields for crops of any sort drop considerably, and famine is inevitable; it will simply not be possible to maintain a global population of the present size. Those who expect to survive and prosper will be those who have mastered the art of subsistence farming.
In Tumbling Tide, Peter Goodchild examines what life will look like in the post-peak world, exploring such topics as housing, food production, education, and politics, and delivers the troubling news that solar panels and vegetable patches won't be enough. Tumbling Tide differs from similar books in the sense that it provides far more detail about the effects of peak oil in the coming decades, and examines the social effects — crime, cults, craziness, and chaos — that could stem from this crisis.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- Fiddler on the Roof give away Tumbling Tide. 10
- Homo sapiens 11
- Overshoot The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change Bottleneck Humanitys Impending Impasse 12
- Preface 14
- Oman in Winter 16
- Ends of the Earth 17
- Elements of Collapse 19
- Oil Production 21
- Alternative Energy 25
- Infrastructure 28
- Farmland 30
- Population 34
- The End of Electricity 42
- When the Lights Go Out 48
- Knowledge 51
- Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening 51
- The Pollyanna Principle 55
- Post-Peak Economics 59
- Money economy 62
- Globalization 67
- Luddite 68
- A Smaller World 72
- Triumph of the Will 74
- Small Is Beautiful 76
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People History 77
- De Rerum Natura 77
- The End of Education 79
- Crime in the Post-Peak World 83
- Crime and Civil Society 84
- Why Nobody Is Listening 88
- Heart of Darkness 88
- The Time Machine 91
- Peak Oil and Global Warming 92
- Special Report Emissions Scenarios Fourth Assessment Report 93
- Leadership and Social Structure 95
- The Post-Oil Community 98
- The Widening Spiral 106
- World Food Supplies 112
- The Struggle for Localization 117
- Toward a New Medical Science 120
- Merck Manual of Medical Information 121
- Gaultheria procumbens Herbal Medicine 122
- Where to Live 124
- An Experiment in Country Living 135
- Houses in the Post-Peak World 143
- Beowulf 146
- Survival Gardening 147
- Amaryllidaceae Chenopodiaceae Brassicaceae Legu- minosae Umbelliferae Convolvulaceae Solanaceae Cucurbitaceae 148
- Corn Beans Squash 150
- Growing Your Own Grains 157
- Gramineae Poaceae 157
- Types of Grain 158
- Panicum miliaceum Sorghum bicolor 159
- Cultivation 159
- Weeds 160
- Harvesting 161
- Wheat and 166
- Triticum aestivum T. turgidum 166
- T. turgidum 167
- Rye 168
- Secale cereale 168
- Barley 168
- Hordeum vulgare 168
- Oats and 169
- Avena sativa A. nuda 169
- A. nuda 169
- Proso Millet 169
- Panicum miliaceum 169
- Sorghum 170
- Sorghum bicolor 170
- Corn 170
- Zea mays 170
- Buckwheat 172
- Fagopyrum esculentum 172
- Polygonaceae 172
- Putting Meat on the Table 174
- Hunting 174
- Trapping 177
- Fishing 179
- Miscellaneous Wild-Animal Food 185
- Domesticated Animals 187
- Preserving Animal Food 188
- Preparing Hides 189
- The Cycle of Civilization 191
- Homo sapiens 191
- Homo sapiens 196
- Homo sapiens 197
- Appendix One 199
- Energy 199
- Oil 200
- Scientific American locus classicus 200
- Coal 203
- Hydroelectricity 204
- Nuclear Power 205
- Energy and Electricity 206
- Alternative Energy 206
- Appendix Two 209
- Resources 209
- Minerals 209
- Grain 210
- Fish 211
- Arable Land 211
- Fresh Water 214
- References 217
