NanoThoughts 1.0

This book, The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, makes for a great stocking stuffer and read. The reviews on amazon are pretty good too. Heinberg does slide over some things that his hippy nature is sure to loathe, like nuclear fission power for one. But, overall, it makes for a great introduction to looking at human civilization from an ecological and thermodynamic point of view. e.g. he rarely mentions oil in the first 50 or so pages of this book, instead he methodically lays down all the important concepts like carrying capacity, the laws of thermodynamics, etc. Heinberg is also in The End Of Suburbia, which is a pretty interesting documentary.

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A book that Heinberg mentions that I'd really like to read now is The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) by Tainter et al. Anybody read this?