Societies beyond oil: oil dregs and social futures

About the author
 Title page
 Copyright
 Table of contents
 Acknowledgments
 Introduction: The Problem of Energy
 Energy
 Oil
 Summarizing the argument
 The problem of oil is 42
 PART I Oil Dregs
 Chapter 1: Oil and the Crash of 2007-08
 Oil and money
 Neoliberalism
 Sprawltown
 Conclusion
 Chapter 2: The Century of Oil
 Humans and nature
 The origins of oil civilization
 Figure 2.1 Sources of global carbon emissions, 1800-2010
 Conclusion
 Chapter 3: Consuming Miles
 Consuming from afar
 Dubai
 From neighbourhood lives
 Places for consuming
 More consumers
 Conclusion. Chapter 4 : Carbon Capital energy inequalities
 Establishing carbon capitalism
 Combating environmentalism
 The noughties
 Conclusion
 Chapter 5: Peaking
 Peak oil thesis
 Figure 5.1 The discovery and consumption of oil, 1900-2030
 Figure 5.2 North sea oil production, 1965-2010
 Tough oil
 Political peaking
 Climate change and multiple crises
 Conclusion
 Chapter 6: The Chinese Century?
 Oiling Chinese development
 Chinese urbanization
 Cars in China
 Supertankers
 China\'s emissions
 Conclusion
 Chapter 7: The Curse of Oil
 There will be blood
 Oil and \'troubled waters\'
 Norway. Democracy and oil part II Social Futures
 Chapter 8: Magic Bullet Future
 Energy and its futures
 Magic bullet of hydrogen
 Technological fixes
 Conclusion
 Chapter 9: Digital Lives
 Digital worlds
 Digitizing manufacturing
 Digitizing social life
 The costs of going digital
 Conclusion
 Chapter 10: Resource Fights
 Recent resource wars
 Future wars
 Conclusion
 Chapter 11: Low-carbon Society
 The green shoots of a powered-down future
 Figure 11.1 Social globalization across the world, 1970-2008
 Figure 11.2 Vehicle miles traveled in the USA 1992-2011 (12-month average, billion miles/day).