The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy, and Environment (Hardcover)

Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: How to Approach the Next Twenty Years.

Chapter 1 The Coming Storm.

Chapter 2 The Lens: How to See the Future.

Chapter 3 A World Worth Inheriting.

Chapter 4 Trust Yourself.

Part II: Foundation.

Chapter 5 Dangerous Exponentials.

Chapter 6 An Inconvenient Lie: The Truth about Growth.

Chapter 7 Our Money System.

Chapter 8 Problems and Predicaments.

Chapter 9 What Is Wealth? (Hint: It’s Not Money).

Part III: Economy.

Chapter 10 Debt.

Chapter 11 The Great Credit Bubble.

Chapter 12 Like a Moth to Flame: Our Destructive Tendency to Print.

Chapter 13 Fuzzy Numbers.

Chapter 14 Starting the Race with Our Shoes Tied Together.

Part IV: Energy.

Chapter 15 Energy and the Economy.

Chapter 16 Peak Oil.

Chapter 17 Necessary but Insufficient: Coal, Nuclear, and Alternatives.

Chapter 18 Why Technology Can’t Fix This.

Part V: Environment.

Chapter 19 Minerals: Gone with the Wind.

Chapter 20 Soil: Thin, Thinner, Gone.

Chapter 21 Parched: The Coming Water Wars.

Chapter 22 All Fished Out.

Part VI: Convergence.

Chapter 23 Convergence: Why the Twenty–Teens Will Be Difficult.

Chapter 24 Closing the Book on Growth.

Chapter 25 Future Scenarios.

Part VII: What Should I Do?

Chapter 26 The Good News: We Already Have Everything We Need.

Chapter 27 What Should I Do?

Chapter 28 The Opportunities.

Appendix.

Notes.

Index.