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Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller: Oil And The End Of Globalization (2009)

by Jeff Rubin(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1400068509 (ISBN13: 9781400068500)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Random House

review 1: The core message is pretty sobering: peak oil will basically make international transport so expensive that global trade will become prohibitively expensive, so everyone will be forced back upon growing their own bananas and... I dunno, knitting their own ipods or whatever. As usual with single-issue pop-economics books though, by the time you're half way though you can't help thinking it would have been punchier as a 5-page magazine article rather than a 260-page book. There's a lot of repetition and padding. So don't buy it, just pick it up in your bookshop and flip through it for a few minutes instead.
review 2: Interesting and well backed up economic (and otherwise forecast) about the implications of a world post peak oil. Rubin knows his stuff and shows in... more no uncertain terms how the decline of oil (and hence rise in oil prices) will affect the globalized world. But what's even better is his optimism that this post oil world will become a more local and sustainable alternative. And best, of course, is that he backs up his claims with real life examples and stats of how this has worked (to some extent) in the past. If only the rest of us could learn from the past and understand that no matter what happens in the immediate short term, or what bucks the trend - in the end, we can't keep using oil infinitely with a finite supply. Just like we can't use other resources infinitely on a finite world. less

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