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Buying Time: Environmental Collapse and the Future of Energy
Kaz Makabe
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Description for Buying Time: Environmental Collapse and the Future of Energy
Hardback. The failure of complex systems, and the future of energy Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 illus., 3 graphs, 5 figures. BIC Classification: RNFY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
We know, from repeated failures to predict and prevent catastrophes ranging from the Great Tohoku Earthquake to the global financial crisis of 2008, that complex adaptive systems, such as those found in nature or in economies, are actually very hard to predict, much less alter. Today, we face environmental degradation caused in large part by the use of fossil fuels, ever-declining efficiencies in extracting them, a pace of development for renewable energy insufficient for replacement of the fossil fuels we are burning through, and population growth that is likely to add two billion people globally by 2040. Despite partial recovery ... Read more
We know, from repeated failures to predict and prevent catastrophes ranging from the Great Tohoku Earthquake to the global financial crisis of 2008, that complex adaptive systems, such as those found in nature or in economies, are actually very hard to predict, much less alter. Today, we face environmental degradation caused in large part by the use of fossil fuels, ever-declining efficiencies in extracting them, a pace of development for renewable energy insufficient for replacement of the fossil fuels we are burning through, and population growth that is likely to add two billion people globally by 2040. Despite partial recovery ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University Press of New England
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781611689310
SKU
V9781611689310
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Kaz Makabe
Kaz Makabe was born in Japan. He moved to New York at the age of six. He attended Columbia University, and has worked at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. He lives in Tokyo and travels frequently.
Reviews for Buying Time: Environmental Collapse and the Future of Energy
“A lucid, thoughtful analysis of the future of energy systems.''
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