Books

Reviews of numerous books and / or DVDs related to the subject of "peak oil" 

Note: often a particular review will combine several different books, so sometimes links for different books lead to the same article. 

Alphabetized by last name of book author.

Eric Brende. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology. 

Julian Darley. High Noon For Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis. 

Kenneth S. Deffeyes. Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert’s Peak. 

Jared Diamond.  Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.

Sally Erickson, producer.  What A Way to Go. [DVD] Life at the end of empire. 

Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack, producers.  A Crude Awakening. The Oil Crash. [DVD] We’re Running Out, and We Don’t Have a Plan. 

Lindsey Grant.  The Collapsing Bubble: Growth and Fossil Energy. 

John G. Howe. The End of Fossil Energy and the Last Chance for Sustainability. 

James Kunstler. The Long Emergency.

James Kunstler.  World Made By Hand. 

Jeremy Leggett. The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and The Coming Global Financial Catastrophe.

J. R. McNeill.  Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World.

Bill McKibben.  Deep Economy. The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.

Cullen Murphy. Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America.

Matthew R. Simmons.  Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy.

Joseph Tainter. The Collapse of Complex Societies. University Press, 1988.

James Jandak Wood, producer.  Crude Impact. [DVD] It’s worse than you think . . . but it’s not too late.

Ronald Wright. A Short History of Progress.