Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (ISBN 978-0865715103) is a 2004 book by Richard Heinberg in which Heinberg discusses peak oil and its attendant implications for the global economy. Due to the dependence of industrialized society on cheap and readily available petroleum (fossil fuel oil), Heinberg argues that the post-peak period of global history is likely to be characterized by social and economic turmoil, disruption of trade, declining standard of living, and warfare.
Heinberg outlines four possible strategies nations could employ to respond to the economic challenges associated with declining oil production:
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by Chris Whitley
Power Down
by: Chris WhitleyDown, down, down
All is revealed when you hit the ground
Miss Amelia, where are you now?
Isolation up in the clouds
Could be time to power down
Down, down, down
No one here, nowhere's around
?Round and ?round
Could be time to power down
Down, down, down
Emiliano, where are you now?
Alien nation in a middle of town
Could be time to power down
Down, down, down
No one here, nowhere around
?Round and ?round
Could be time to power down
Down, down, down
Down, down, down, down
'Cuz only one thing can power me down
She got engine in her eyes
She got a throttle that she cannot disguise
All is revealed when you hit the ground
Could be time to power down
Down, down, down
No one here, nowhere's around
?Round and ?round
Could be time to power down
Down, down, down
Could be time to power down
Down, down, down
Down, down, down, down