Contents

        Acknowledgments

        Introduction

  1.   Ten Years After

  2.   The Gross Society

  3.   Visualize Gasoline

  4.   The Climate PR Puzzle

  5.   The Purposely Confusing World of Energy Politics

  6.   The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism—and the Birth of a Happy Alternative

  7.   Fingers in the Dike

  8.   Your Post-Petroleum Future (a commencement address)

  9.   The Fight of the Century

10.   The Anthropocene: It’s Not All About Us

11.   Conflict in the Era of Economic Decline

12.   All Roads Lead Local

13.   Our Evanescent Culture—and the Awesome Duty of Librarians

14.   Our Cooperative Darwinian Moment

15.   Want to Change the World? Read This First

        Notes

        Index

        About the Author