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Is the world running out of oil? This book analyzes predictions of global oil depletion in the context of science, history, and economics. There has been continuing alarm about the imminent exhaustion of earth's non-renewable resources. Yet, the world has never run out of any significant, globally traded, non-renewable resource. Is the world finally facing a non-renewable resource depletion catastrophe, or is the current concern just another one of a succession of panics? In this book, key assumptions and underlying arguments in the global oil-depletion debate are first summarized and then challenged. Facts about oil supply, production, and consumption are made accessible using concise and simple graphics. Concepts of resource depletion, end-use needs, technology leap-frogging, efficiency, and substitution are used to evaluate historical patterns of exploitation of non-renewable resources and to explore what history suggests about our future dependence on oil. This book is aimed at a broad range of readers,from undergraduate students studying resource science and economics to anyone interested in understanding the context of the controversy over global oil depletion. "It is a book serious students of the world oil market should read, not because Gorelick has all the answers but because his account is well reasoned, well informed, and argued honestly, with respect for responsible opposing viewpoints." Book Review, Science, May 2010

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Small is beautiful se publicó por primera vez en 1998. Más de veinte años después, sigue siendo un texto de una plena vigencia, que ha demostrado ser capaz de anticipar muchos de los debates que, con el tiempo, se situarían en el ojo del huracán. Con una gran precisión y lucidez, Steven Gorelick reúne aquí una serie de reflexiones, respaldadas por numerosos ejemplos y datos, que demuestran la gran dependencia de las grandes empresas respecto de subvenciones, ayudas y exenciones fiscales, laborales y ambientales, sin las cuales las megacorporaciones globales no serían competitivas ni eficientes, y la peligrosa destrucción social, económica y ambiental que causan estas empresas. Sabemos cómo nuestros impuestos se destinan a impulsar la concentración económica en las grandes multinacionales? Somos conscientes de cómo esto afecta al tejido económico local, al empleo y a la utilización de los recursos naturales? Estamos a tiempo de poner en entredicho la presunción de que ?cuanto más grande

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