<div><p>Climate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas, dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy &quot;plug-and-play&quot; solution, author Richard Heinberg suggests instead that we are in for a wild ride; a &quot;civilization reboot&quot; on a scale similar to the agricultural and industrial revolutions.</p><p><i>Afterburn</i> consists of fifteen essays exploring various aspects of the twenty-first century migration away from fossil fuels including:</p><ul><li>Short-term political and economic factors that impede broad-scale, organized efforts to adapt</li><li>The origin of longer-term trends (such as consumerism), that have created a way of life that seems &quot;normal&quot; to most Americans, but is actually unprecedented, highly fragile, and unsustainable</li><li>Potential opportunities and sources of conflict that are likely to emerge</li></ul><p>From the inevitability and desirability of more locally organized economies to the urgent need to preserve our recent cultural achievements and the futility of pursuing economic growth above all,<i>Afterburn</i> offers cutting-edge perspectives and insights that challenge conventional thinking about our present, our future, and the choices in our hands.</p><p><b>Richard Heinberg</b> is a senior fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, the author of eleven previous books including<i>The Party's Over</i> and <i>The End of Growth</i>. He is widely regarded as one of the world's most effective communicators of the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels.<br></p></div>