Crash Course

An Honest Approach to Facing the Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Discover how and why the world’s crises are interconnected and what you can do to prepare for the next one The world is experiencing a series of crises. In The Crash Course: An Honest Approach to Facing the Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment, Revised Edition, veteran executive and strategist Chris Martenson delivers an incisive and eye-opening exploration that explains why the reader needs to understand that it is the interconnectedness of the various crises that matters most. From energy shortages to climate instability, financial crises, supply chain disruptions, pandemics, war, and crop failures, you’ll discover the common factor that is driving them all and how to adapt to volatile new realities and safeguard your own personal wealth, health, and community. In the book, you’ll find effective solutions for living with unpredictability and change, as well as: A workable framework for understanding the “how” and “why” of dramatic societal, environmental, and economic transformationA rich set of solutions, complete with examples, you can use to draw inspiration and motivation to act in your own lifeAn expansive amount of new material, fully updated since the last editionA transformative and thought-provoking strategic playbook for managing increasingly unexpected events, crises, and revolutions, The Crash Course, Revised Edition is an essential resource for anyone concerned about their retirement savings, the world’s environment, as well as anyone hoping to become more independent and self-reliant.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-03-16
Mått:219 x 23 x 151 mm
Vikt:655 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:336
Upplaga:2
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9781394168866

Utforska kategorier

Nationalekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

CHRIS MARTENSON, PhD (Duke), MBA (Cornell), is a former Vice President at SAIC, worked for Pfizer, and created the viral video series, The Crash Course, which has been viewed by millions of people and translated into 4 languages. He is a world-class communicator and dot-connector, a sought-after writer and speaker, and is the host of the online resilience community at peakprosperity.com.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction ixPart I How to Approach the Next Twenty Years 11 The Coming Storm 32 The Lens: How to See the Future 73 A World Worth Inheriting 114 Trust Yourself 14Part II Foundation 215 Dangerous Exponentials 236 Problems versus Predicaments 387 An Inconvenient Lie: The Truth About Growth 428 Complex Systems 479 Our Money System 5510 What Is Wealth? (Hint: It’s Not Money) 69Part III Economy 7511 Debt 7712 The Great Credit Bubble 9013 Like a Moth to Flame: Our Destructive Tendency to Print 10014 Fuzzy Numbers 10915 Crumbling Before Our Eyes: The Story of Concrete 118Part IV Energy 12316 Energy and the Economy 12517 Peak Oil 14118 Shale Oil 16019 Necessary but Insufficient: Clean Energy, Nuclear, and Coal 16620 Why Technology Can’t Fix This 191Part V Environment 19921 Minerals: Gone with the Wind 20122 Soil: Thin, Thinner, Gone 21123 Parched: The Coming Water Wars 21924 All Fished Out 22625 What Do You Mean We’re Running Out of Sand? Strange but True 231Part VI Convergence 23326 Where Have All the Insects Gone? Silence of the Lamps 23527 The Bumpy Path to 2030 238Part VII What Should I Do? 24728 The Good News: We Already Have Everything We Need 24929 Closing the Book on Growth 25730 What Should I Do? 26031 Build Up Your Capital! 270Appendix 291Notes 293Index 303