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⛽ Energy Dependency

The geopolitical and personal vulnerabilities created by reliance on external energy sources, from oil-dependent nations to individuals drained by toxic dynamics.
The End of Oil
by Paul Roberts • 2004
Peak oil, climate collapse, energy poverty: three crises converging, and no unified plan exists.
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1k+
🔄 Energy Transition🛢️ Oil Geopolitics⛽ Fossil Fuel Dependence
The End of Oil Summary
The End of Oil 92%
Peak oil, climate collapse, energy poverty: three crises converging, and no unified plan exists.
by Paul Roberts 2004
3.74
1k+ ratings
🔄 Energy Transition🛢️ Oil Geopolitics⛽ Fossil Fuel Dependence
Schockwellen
by Claudia Kemfert • 2023
Why Germany's energy transition stalled by design, and the community projects that got it right.
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75
⚡ Energy Transition🌍 Energy Geopolitics🔒 Energy Security
Schockwellen Summary
Schockwellen 90%
Why Germany's energy transition stalled by design, and the community projects that got it right.
by Claudia Kemfert 2023
4.07
75 ratings
⚡ Energy Transition🌍 Energy Geopolitics🔒 Energy Security
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
by David J.C. MacKay • 2008
Most energy plans don't add up. A physicist's arithmetic reveals what would.
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🏛️ Energy Policy⚡ Energy Systems🌬️ Renewable Energy
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air Summary
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air 90%
Most energy plans don't add up. A physicist's arithmetic reveals what would.
by David J.C. MacKay 2008
4.41
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Energy Policy⚡ Energy Systems🌬️ Renewable Energy
Confronting Collapse
by Michael C. Ruppert • 2009
Cheap oil made modern life possible. It is peaking, and nothing can fully replace it.
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313
⛽ Peak Oil🪨 Resource Depletion💹 Energy Economics
Confronting Collapse Summary
Confronting Collapse 89%
Cheap oil made modern life possible. It is peaking, and nothing can fully replace it.
by Michael C. Ruppert 2009
3.83
313 ratings
⛽ Peak Oil🪨 Resource Depletion💹 Energy Economics
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
by Alex Epstein • 2014
Climate deaths fell 98% this century. Fossil fuels caused that, and their moral defense is overdue.
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⚡ Energy Policy🌡️ Climate Debate🔧 Techno-Optimism
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Summary
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels 89%
Climate deaths fell 98% this century. Fossil fuels caused that, and their moral defense is overdue.
by Alex Epstein 2014
4.07
2k+ ratings
⚡ Energy Policy🌡️ Climate Debate🔧 Techno-Optimism
The Rare Metals War
by Guillame Pitron • 2018
Your electric car runs on metals that leave toxic wastelands and enrich an authoritarian superpower.
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⚡ Energy Transition⛏️ Resource Extraction🔗 Supply Chains
The Rare Metals War Summary
The Rare Metals War 89%
Your electric car runs on metals that leave toxic wastelands and enrich an authoritarian superpower.
by Guillame Pitron 2018
4.04
1k+ ratings
⚡ Energy Transition⛏️ Resource Extraction🔗 Supply Chains
Taming the Sun
by Varun Sivaram • 2018
More solar means each panel is worth less. Three innovations can flip that equation.
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☀️ Solar Energy🔄 Clean Energy Transition🏛️ Energy Policy
Taming the Sun Summary
Taming the Sun 89%
More solar means each panel is worth less. Three innovations can flip that equation.
by Varun Sivaram 2018
4.07
501 ratings
☀️ Solar Energy🔄 Clean Energy Transition🏛️ Energy Policy
Blowout
by Rachel Maddow • 2019
Fracking, oligarchs, and a 50-kiloton bomb in Colorado: how the oil industry broke global democracy.
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🛢️ Oil And Gas Industry🌏 Energy Geopolitics💎 Resource Curse
Blowout Summary
Blowout 89%
Fracking, oligarchs, and a 50-kiloton bomb in Colorado: how the oil industry broke global democracy.
by Rachel Maddow 2019
4.34
16k+ ratings
🛢️ Oil And Gas Industry🌏 Energy Geopolitics💎 Resource Curse
The Grid
by Gretchen Bakke • 2016
The clean-energy future depends on a century-old machine that was never designed to handle it.
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🏗️ Infrastructure⚡ Energy Transition🌬️ Renewable Integration
The Grid Summary
The Grid 89%
The clean-energy future depends on a century-old machine that was never designed to handle it.
by Gretchen Bakke 2016
3.86
5k+ ratings
🏗️ Infrastructure⚡ Energy Transition🌬️ Renewable Integration
Here Comes the Sun
by Bill McKibben • 2025
The climate crisis has a solution: the sun, which quietly became the cheapest power on Earth.
4.50
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☀️ Renewable Energy⚡ Electrification✊ Climate Activism
Here Comes the Sun Summary
Here Comes the Sun 89%
The climate crisis has a solution: the sun, which quietly became the cheapest power on Earth.
by Bill McKibben 2025
4.50
939 ratings
☀️ Renewable Energy⚡ Electrification✊ Climate Activism
The Great Transition
by Lester R. Brown • 2014
Wind and solar are now cheapest. The shift isn't a political choice; it's a price signal.
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⚡ Energy Transition☀️ Renewable Energy📉 Energy Economics
The Great Transition Summary
The Great Transition 89%
Wind and solar are now cheapest. The shift isn't a political choice; it's a price signal.
by Lester R. Brown 2014
3.66
201 ratings
⚡ Energy Transition☀️ Renewable Energy📉 Energy Economics
BOOM
by Tony Horwitz • 2014
From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.
3.89
713
🛢️ Energy Politics🏭 Oil Industry📰 Narrative Journalism
BOOM Summary
BOOM 89%
From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.
by Tony Horwitz 2014
3.89
713 ratings
🛢️ Energy Politics🏭 Oil Industry📰 Narrative Journalism
Going Nuclear
by Tim Gregory • 2025
Nuclear is the cleanest, safest, densest energy on Earth. Only irrational fear stands in its way.
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🏭 Nuclear Energy🏛️ Energy Policy🌍 Climate Solutions
Going Nuclear Summary
Going Nuclear 88%
Nuclear is the cleanest, safest, densest energy on Earth. Only irrational fear stands in its way.
by Tim Gregory 2025
4.47
309 ratings
🏭 Nuclear Energy🏛️ Energy Policy🌍 Climate Solutions
The New Map
by Daniel Yergin • 2020
Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.
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🛢️ Energy Geopolitics🏛️ Great Power Rivalry🌍 Climate Geopolitics
The New Map Summary
The New Map 88%
Shale, batteries, and pipelines are redrawing global power faster than diplomats can react.
by Daniel Yergin 2020
4.17
6k+ ratings
🛢️ Energy Geopolitics🏛️ Great Power Rivalry🌍 Climate Geopolitics
Revolutionary Power
by Shalanda Baker • 2021
Clean energy could dismantle inequality or deepen it. The difference: who owns the panels.
4.17
190
🏛️ Energy Policy🏭 Environmental Racism🔋 Clean Energy Transition
Revolutionary Power Summary
Revolutionary Power 88%
Clean energy could dismantle inequality or deepen it. The difference: who owns the panels.
by Shalanda Baker 2021
4.17
190 ratings
🏛️ Energy Policy🏭 Environmental Racism🔋 Clean Energy Transition
Private Empire
by Steve Coll • 2012
How ExxonMobil became a nation-like force, with its own intelligence, foreign policy, and security.
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🛢️ Oil Industry🏢 Corporate History🔍 Investigative Journalism
Private Empire Summary
Private Empire 88%
How ExxonMobil became a nation-like force, with its own intelligence, foreign policy, and security.
by Steve Coll 2012
4.00
4k+ ratings
🛢️ Oil Industry🏢 Corporate History🔍 Investigative Journalism
The Prize
by Daniel Yergin • 1991
How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.
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13k+
🛢️ Commodity History⛽ Petroleum Industry🌍 Energy Geopolitics
The Prize Summary
The Prize 88%
How a dark liquid wrote the rules of power, decided wars, and built the greatest fortunes.
by Daniel Yergin 1991
4.44
13k+ ratings
🛢️ Commodity History⛽ Petroleum Industry🌍 Energy Geopolitics
The Future of Fusion Energy
by Jason Parisi • 2018
Building a star on Earth: the 35-nation, 500-megawatt experiment to unlock fusion energy.
4.49
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⚛️ Nuclear Fusion🔬 Plasma Physics🔧 Energy Technology
The Future of Fusion Energy Summary
The Future of Fusion Energy 88%
Building a star on Earth: the 35-nation, 500-megawatt experiment to unlock fusion energy.
by Jason Parisi 2018
4.49
127 ratings
⚛️ Nuclear Fusion🔬 Plasma Physics🔧 Energy Technology
Renewable Energy
by Bruce Usher • 2019
The energy transition was stalled by storage. The solution is already in millions of garages.
4.33
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☀️ Renewable Energy🔄 Energy Transition📉 Technology Cost Curves
Renewable Energy Summary
Renewable Energy 88%
The energy transition was stalled by storage. The solution is already in millions of garages.
by Bruce Usher 2019
4.33
302 ratings
☀️ Renewable Energy🔄 Energy Transition📉 Technology Cost Curves
Falter
by Bill McKibben • 2019
Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.
4.00
2k+
🤖 Tech Ethics⚠️ Existential Risk🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception
Falter Summary
Falter 88%
Engineers want to redesign humans as the climate exit. The two crises share a cause.
by Bill McKibben 2019
4.00
2k+ ratings
🤖 Tech Ethics⚠️ Existential Risk🛢️ Fossil Fuel Deception
Solar Power
by Mark Prentice • 2016
Install your own solar panels, slash your bill, and sell the surplus to the utility.
2.50
2
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🏡 Off-Grid Living
Solar Power Summary
Solar Power 88%
Install your own solar panels, slash your bill, and sell the surplus to the utility.
by Mark Prentice 2016
2.50
2 ratings
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🏡 Off-Grid Living
2052
by Jørgen Randers • 2012
A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.
3.95
355
🧠 Systems Thinking📉 Limits To Growth🔮 Scenario Planning
2052 Summary
2052 88%
A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.
by Jørgen Randers 2012
3.95
355 ratings
🧠 Systems Thinking📉 Limits To Growth🔮 Scenario Planning
Solar Power for Sustainable Living
by Sustainable Stevie • 2012
The DIY solar reality check: what your bills, roof, and local code demand before you start.
3.75
4
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🔨 Home Improvement
Solar Power for Sustainable Living Summary
Solar Power for Sustainable Living 87%
The DIY solar reality check: what your bills, roof, and local code demand before you start.
by Sustainable Stevie 2012
3.75
4 ratings
☀️ Solar Energy♻️ Renewable Energy🔨 Home Improvement
Energy and Civilization
by Vaclav Smil • 2017
A week of American energy use matches a year of Nigerian. The history behind that gap.
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4k+
⚡ Energy History⚙️ History Of Technology🏭 Industrial Revolution
Energy and Civilization Summary
Energy and Civilization 87%
A week of American energy use matches a year of Nigerian. The history behind that gap.
by Vaclav Smil 2017
4.09
4k+ ratings
⚡ Energy History⚙️ History Of Technology🏭 Industrial Revolution
Lights Out
by Ted Koppel • 2015
A grid cyberattack could kill most Americans in a year; no agency has a plan.
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⚡ Critical Infrastructure🔌 Electrical Grid💥 EMP Threat
Lights Out Summary
Lights Out 87%
A grid cyberattack could kill most Americans in a year; no agency has a plan.
by Ted Koppel 2015
3.71
6k+ ratings
⚡ Critical Infrastructure🔌 Electrical Grid💥 EMP Threat
Don't Wait for the Next War
by Wesley K. Clark • 2014
A retired general's strategy: America, united by energy, not enemies.
3.67
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🧭 Grand Strategy🛢️ Energy Geopolitics💼 Economic Statecraft
Don't Wait for the Next War Summary
Don't Wait for the Next War 87%
A retired general's strategy: America, united by energy, not enemies.
by Wesley K. Clark 2014
3.67
93 ratings
🧭 Grand Strategy🛢️ Energy Geopolitics💼 Economic Statecraft
Brazil Is the New America
by James Dale Davidson • 2012
The math of debt, energy, and demography says the American era ends and Brazil's begins.
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36
📉 National Decline🌍 Emerging Markets🛢️ Peak Oil
Brazil Is the New America Summary
Brazil Is the New America 87%
The math of debt, energy, and demography says the American era ends and Brazil's begins.
by James Dale Davidson 2012
3.17
36 ratings
📉 National Decline🌍 Emerging Markets🛢️ Peak Oil
Apocalypse Never
by Michael Shellenberger • 2020
The planet is getting better in the ways that matter. The alarmists got it backward.
4.16
6k+
🌍 Environmental Policy🌡️ Climate Debate⚡ Energy Policy
Apocalypse Never Summary
Apocalypse Never 87%
The planet is getting better in the ways that matter. The alarmists got it backward.
by Michael Shellenberger 2020
4.16
6k+ ratings
🌍 Environmental Policy🌡️ Climate Debate⚡ Energy Policy
The Oil Curse
by Michael L. Ross • 2012
How petroleum creates autocrats, fuels rebellions, and shrinks women's economic power.
3.96
210
🛢️ Resource Curse🏛️ Petro-States💸 Dutch Disease
The Oil Curse Summary
The Oil Curse 87%
How petroleum creates autocrats, fuels rebellions, and shrinks women's economic power.
by Michael L. Ross 2012
3.96
210 ratings
🛢️ Resource Curse🏛️ Petro-States💸 Dutch Disease
The Accidental Superpower
by Peter Zeihan • 2023
The global free-trade era was a U.S. military subsidy. It expires as the Baby Boomers retire.
4.46
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🗺️ Geopolitics📉 Demographic Decline⚡ Energy Policy
The Accidental Superpower Summary
The Accidental Superpower 87%
The global free-trade era was a U.S. military subsidy. It expires as the Baby Boomers retire.
by Peter Zeihan 2023
4.46
2k+ ratings
🗺️ Geopolitics📉 Demographic Decline⚡ Energy Policy
Our Choice
by Al Gore • 2008
The tools to solve the climate crisis exist; here's the plan to deploy them at scale.
3.99
864
🌍 Climate Crisis☀️ Renewable Energy💡 Energy Efficiency
Our Choice Summary
Our Choice 87%
The tools to solve the climate crisis exist; here's the plan to deploy them at scale.
by Al Gore 2008
3.99
864 ratings
🌍 Climate Crisis☀️ Renewable Energy💡 Energy Efficiency
How the World Really Works
by Vaclav Smil • 2022
Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.
3.94
14k+
⚡ Energy Systems🏭 Industrial Ecology🌾 Global Food Systems
How the World Really Works Summary
How the World Really Works 87%
Both doomers and utopians skip the same thing: modern civilization's staggering material scale.
by Vaclav Smil 2022
3.94
14k+ ratings
⚡ Energy Systems🏭 Industrial Ecology🌾 Global Food Systems
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
by Bill Gates • 2021
Five activities emit 51 billion tons a year; the cost gaps show where innovation must hit first.
4.11
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🌍 Net Zero Transition⚡ Clean Energy Transition🚀 Techno-Optimism
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Summary
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster 87%
Five activities emit 51 billion tons a year; the cost gaps show where innovation must hit first.
by Bill Gates 2021
4.11
51k+ ratings
🌍 Net Zero Transition⚡ Clean Energy Transition🚀 Techno-Optimism
The Power of Geography
by Tim Marshall • 2021
From the Sahel to low Earth orbit, ten regions where geography is shaping the next flashpoints.
4.19
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🌍 Geopolitics🏛️ International Relations⛽ Energy Security
The Power of Geography Summary
The Power of Geography 87%
From the Sahel to low Earth orbit, ten regions where geography is shaping the next flashpoints.
by Tim Marshall 2021
4.19
26k+ ratings
🌍 Geopolitics🏛️ International Relations⛽ Energy Security
Material World
by Ed Conway • 2023
Six buried materials hold up modern life. The clean energy shift means digging more, not less.
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9k+
📜 Material Histories🚢 Supply Chains🏗️ Hidden Infrastructure
Material World Summary
Material World 87%
Six buried materials hold up modern life. The clean energy shift means digging more, not less.
by Ed Conway 2023
4.5
9k+ ratings
📜 Material Histories🚢 Supply Chains🏗️ Hidden Infrastructure
The Limits to Growth
by Donella H. Meadows • 1972
Exponential growth meets a finite planet: overshoot, collapse. The math hasn't changed since 1972.
4.17
931
🌿 Environmental Economics⛏️ Resource Depletion🔄 Systems Thinking
The Limits to Growth Summary
The Limits to Growth 87%
Exponential growth meets a finite planet: overshoot, collapse. The math hasn't changed since 1972.
by Donella H. Meadows 1972
4.17
931 ratings
🌿 Environmental Economics⛏️ Resource Depletion🔄 Systems Thinking
Growth
by Vaclav Smil • 2019
The math of growth is the same everywhere: a curve that bends toward limits, not infinity.
3.87
1k+
🌍 Limits To Growth📈 Scaling Laws⚡ Energy History
Growth Summary
Growth 87%
The math of growth is the same everywhere: a curve that bends toward limits, not infinity.
by Vaclav Smil 2019
3.87
1k+ ratings
🌍 Limits To Growth📈 Scaling Laws⚡ Energy History
False Alarm
by Bjørn Lomborg • 2020
Two trillion a year for one-twentieth of a degree: the smarter investments our panic overlooks.
4.16
3k+
🏛️ Climate Policy📊 Environmental Economics⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis
False Alarm Summary
False Alarm 87%
Two trillion a year for one-twentieth of a degree: the smarter investments our panic overlooks.
by Bjørn Lomborg 2020
4.16
3k+ ratings
🏛️ Climate Policy📊 Environmental Economics⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Long and the Short of It - Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Are Not in
by John Kay • 2009
Clean energy outcompetes fossil fuels on price. The smart money is shifting; the rest will follow.
3.95
615
🏭 Decarbonization☀️ Clean Energy💰 Impact Investing
The Long and the Short of It - Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Are Not in Summary
The Long and the Short of It - Finance and Investment for Normally Intelligent People Who Are Not in 87%
Clean energy outcompetes fossil fuels on price. The smart money is shifting; the rest will follow.
by John Kay 2009
3.95
615 ratings
🏭 Decarbonization☀️ Clean Energy💰 Impact Investing
The Green New Deal
by Jeremy Rifkin • 2019
The fossil-fuel economy is a bubble. Green tech will pop it by 2028.
3.68
812
💚 Green New Deal⚡ Energy Transition💰 Green Economics
The Green New Deal Summary
The Green New Deal 87%
The fossil-fuel economy is a bubble. Green tech will pop it by 2028.
by Jeremy Rifkin 2019
3.68
812 ratings
💚 Green New Deal⚡ Energy Transition💰 Green Economics
Numbers Don't Lie
by Vaclav Smil • 2020
Your smartphone costs the planet as much as a car. 71 data points that rewrite modern life.
3.82
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🔋 Energy Transitions👴 Demographic Shifts🌽 Food Systems
Numbers Don't Lie Summary
Numbers Don't Lie 87%
Your smartphone costs the planet as much as a car. 71 data points that rewrite modern life.
by Vaclav Smil 2020
3.82
11k+ ratings
🔋 Energy Transitions👴 Demographic Shifts🌽 Food Systems
Prisoners of Geography
by Tim Marshall • 2015
Geography ties presidents' hands more than ideology. The map cornering Napoleon is cornering Putin.
4.19
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🌍 Geopolitics🛢️ Natural Resources⚔️ Military Strategy
Prisoners of Geography Summary
Prisoners of Geography 87%
Geography ties presidents' hands more than ideology. The map cornering Napoleon is cornering Putin.
by Tim Marshall 2015
4.19
119k+ ratings
🌍 Geopolitics🛢️ Natural Resources⚔️ Military Strategy
Decline and Fall
by John Michael Greer • 2014
Empires are wealth pumps. America's runs on oil, nearly dry. The collapse cycle is inevitable.
4.29
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🏛️ American Empire📉 Imperial Decline🔄 Cyclical History
Decline and Fall Summary
Decline and Fall 87%
Empires are wealth pumps. America's runs on oil, nearly dry. The collapse cycle is inevitable.
by John Michael Greer 2014
4.29
156 ratings
🏛️ American Empire📉 Imperial Decline🔄 Cyclical History
Climate Change
by Joseph Romm • 2015
Climate change is accelerating faster than predicted. The most expensive thing we can do is nothing.
4.22
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🧪 Climate Science📋 Climate Policy⚡ Energy Transition
Climate Change Summary
Climate Change 87%
Climate change is accelerating faster than predicted. The most expensive thing we can do is nothing.
by Joseph Romm 2015
4.22
694 ratings
🧪 Climate Science📋 Climate Policy⚡ Energy Transition
Bad Ideas?
by Robert Winston • 2009
Writing, farming, and nuclear power share an uncomfortable secret: each was supposed to save us.
3.56
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⚙️ History Of Technology🔄 Unintended Consequences📈 Progress Studies
Bad Ideas? Summary
Bad Ideas? 87%
Writing, farming, and nuclear power share an uncomfortable secret: each was supposed to save us.
by Robert Winston 2009
3.56
142 ratings
⚙️ History Of Technology🔄 Unintended Consequences📈 Progress Studies
A Century of War
by F. William Engdahl • 1992
How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.
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🛢️ Oil Geopolitics🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power💵 Petrodollar System
A Century of War Summary
A Century of War 87%
How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.
by F. William Engdahl 1992
4.20
480 ratings
🛢️ Oil Geopolitics🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power💵 Petrodollar System
How Everything Can Collapse
by Pablo Servigne • 2015
Collapse follows a recognizable script. Industrial civilization is already past the first scene.
4.16
1k+
📉 Collapsology🏚️ Civilizational Collapse🔗 Systems Thinking
How Everything Can Collapse Summary
How Everything Can Collapse 87%
Collapse follows a recognizable script. Industrial civilization is already past the first scene.
by Pablo Servigne 2015
4.16
1k+ ratings
📉 Collapsology🏚️ Civilizational Collapse🔗 Systems Thinking
Chokepoints
by Edward Fishman • 2025
America now wages economic war through dollar clearing and chip supply, not troops.
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⚔️ Economic Warfare🌐 International Finance💵 Dollar Dominance
Chokepoints Summary
Chokepoints 87%
America now wages economic war through dollar clearing and chip supply, not troops.
by Edward Fishman 2025
4.35
3k+ ratings
⚔️ Economic Warfare🌐 International Finance💵 Dollar Dominance
City of Gold
by Jim Krane • 2009
Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.
3.97
776
🏛️ State Capitalism⛽ Resource Curse👑 Gulf Monarchies
City of Gold Summary
City of Gold 86%
Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.
by Jim Krane 2009
3.97
776 ratings
🏛️ State Capitalism⛽ Resource Curse👑 Gulf Monarchies
Trespassing Across America
by Ken Ilgunas • 2016
He walked the Keystone XL pipeline illegally. The land and its people changed him.
3.82
2k+
🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry✊ Environmental Activism🚶 Walking Journeys
Trespassing Across America Summary
Trespassing Across America 86%
He walked the Keystone XL pipeline illegally. The land and its people changed him.
by Ken Ilgunas 2016
3.82
2k+ ratings
🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry✊ Environmental Activism🚶 Walking Journeys
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