[Peakoil] Dmitry Orlov's book "Reinventing Collapse"

[Nature and Society Forum]

I have just completed Dmitry Orlov's book "Reinventing Collapse". It's  
broadly a comparison between the Soviet collapse of the late 1980s/ 
early 1990s and the situation in the USA today which - he convincingly  
argues - is on the verge of its own unique collapse.

I highly recommend the book. Orlov's wry, mordant wit and his unusual  
but perceptive view will give every reader a number of insights/ 
implications they have never thought of before. The setting is  
primarily peak oil, but it also weaves in a number of social issues  
(health, military, education, crime, surviving depression) as well as  
climate change.

Orlov does not expect a sudden collapse. He sees a gradual unravelling  
and the establishment over time of new ways of doing things in  
America. He specifically does not see the USA after his collapse as  
looking anything like the Russia of today.

Jump on the Amazon site and order a copy today.
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