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Not the Future We Ordered - Peak Oil, Psychology, and the Myth of Progress (Paperback)
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Not the Future We Ordered - Peak Oil, Psychology, and the Myth of Progress (Paperback)
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For well over half a century, since the first credible warnings of
petroleum depletion were raised in the 1950s, contemporary
industrial civilization has been caught in a remarkable paradox: a
culture more focused on problem solving than any other has
repeatedly failed to deal with, or even consider, the problem most
likely to bring its own history to a full stop. The coming of peak
oil the peaking and irreversible decline of world petroleum
production poses an existential threat to societies in which every
sector of the economy depends on petroleum-based transport, and no
known energy source can scale up extensively or quickly enough to
replace dwindling oil supplies. Resolute action on personal, local,
national, and global levels over the decades just passed might have
staved off a future of economic contraction, political turmoil, and
immense human suffering. Instead, governments and populations of
all the world s industrial nations collectively closed their eyes
to the impending crisis."Not The Future We Ordered" is the first
study of the psychological dimensions of that decision and its
consequences, as a case study in the social psychology of
collective failure, and as an issue with which psychologists and
therapists will be confronted repeatedly in the years ahead. At the
core of the modern world s inability to come to grips with the
challenge of peak oil are a set of beliefs that amount to a civil
religion of progress, in which the concept of progress is credited
with the invincibility and beneficence other religions assign to
their gods. This civil religion of progress lends legitimacy to
policies that subordinate all other values to economic growth,
place blind faith in untested technologies, and rule out serious
consideration of the long-term downsides of today s trends.The
religious faith in progress that makes such policies seem sensible,
and provides justification for the marginalization of alternative
views, has become one of the core factors driving contemporary
societies headlong toward a wrenching confrontation with the hard
limits of a finite planet. As the gap widens between today s
expectations of perpetual progress and tomorrow s experiences, peak
oil will become a significant mental health issue across the
currently industrialized world. When the future we ordered fails to
show up on schedule, cognitive dissonance and other psychological
impacts common in times of severe cultural dislocation will likely
show up as well, driving counterproductive responses on the
personal and collective scales. Understanding the psychology that
backed industrial civilization into a corner called peak oil is a
crucial step in dealing with these consequences, and to this, "Not
The Future We Ordered" offers a clear and readable guide"
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