Fossil Fuels

Liz Gogerly

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Can you imagine what our lives would be like after we run short of vital fossil fuels? What would happen to our transport, to the way we produce and distribute food, and to the many machines and gadgets we use? How would people, communities, and countries respond to shortages of energy? This book traces the possible consequences of a global event on this scale, with ideas and evidence based on similar scenarios that are a part of fact and fiction.

Informations

• Publié par: Capstone Global Library
• Date de parution: 20 juin 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781406268577
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 27 Mo

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E R . . . L D AFT O R A W

FOSSIL FUELS Liz Gogerly

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Edited by Andrew Farrow, Adrian Vigliano,  and Vaarunika Dharmapala Designed by Philippa Jenkins Original illustrations © Capstone Global Library  Limited 2013 Illustrated by HL Studios and Alvaro Fernandez  Villa Advocate-Art pp4-5 Picture research by Mica Brancic Printed and bound in China

ISBN 978 1 406 26092 2 17 16 15 14 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Gogerly, Liz. A world after fossil fuels. 333.7’94-dc23 A full catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

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We would like to thank Michael Mastrandrea for his invaluable help in the preparation of this book.

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CONTENTS

PROLOGUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

THE WORLD WAKES UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

PANIC SETS IN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

POWER CUTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

ONE YEAR ON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

THE NEW WAY OF LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

WHAT CAN WE DO? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

WRITE YOUR OWN STORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

TIMELINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

GLOSSARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

FIND OUT MORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Some words are printed in bold,like this. You can find out what they mean by looking in the glossary.

The situation is serious as about 40 per cent of the world’s traded oil passes through the gulf.

4

I blame the terrorists for this mess!

We’ve been queuing for hours – hope the petrol doesn’t run out.

Can’t help but feel panicky!

I reckon I ought to get down to the petrol station and fill up on petrol right now.

Governments are urging people not to panic.

Prologue: 20 March 2020: Four days ago terrorists set off a series of car bombs near government buildings in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. In the following days suicide bombers took out homes and other haunts of Westerners living in the city. Yesterday, two lorries packed with explosives forced their way into the Saudis’ biggest oil refinery and destroyed it. This morning there are reports of terrorist attacks on oil tankers passing through the Persian Gulf.