Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11492 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
“Efforts like [PEAK OIL SURVIVAL] will serve as lifeboats. Generally speaking, it's better to build a lifeboat before the ship starts to list precariously, rather than wait for universal acknowledgment that it is in fact sinking.”
—Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
“Aric McBay is an extraordinary writer, thinker, and activist whose work is absolutely indispensible to the real work we all face of dismantling civilization and defending the places we love. ”
—Derrick Jensen, author of A Language Older than Words and The Culture of Make Believe
"PEAK OIL SURVIVAL is a solid, down-to-earth manual for human survival couched in a solid, down-to-earth analysis of why such means will be required. Get your hands on this volume."
—Chellis Glendinning, author of My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization, Off the Map, and Chiva: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade

From the Back Cover
Oil and energy are not limitless resources, and someday the supply will be depleted. Peak Oil Survival shows readers how to plan for the future: how to survive and thrive when the food, transport, and energy industries sputter out. Author Aric McBay gives an essential crash course complete with clear, simple instructions and easy-to-read diagrams. Peak Oil Survival will explain how people can protect their families and strengthen their communities in the event of a crisis - and live comfortably off the grid.

About the Author
Aric McBay is a writer who specializes in peak-oil issues

Customer Reviews

Do Not Waste Your money!
Usually the reviews help me decide if the book is of any value. Not this time. I know there are more helpful books out there to help in this coming economic collapse.

it's construction-oriented
It's not about cultural change or foraging, it's about building stuff to be more independent.

An extreme disappointment
If you have never read anything about peak oil or survival perhaps this book will get you thinking. If you have any knowledge of these topics you will find this book very high level and not informative. If Mr. McBay has an understanding of survival, or in a more relevant vein self-reliance, it does not make it to these pages.

Two quick examples: The book is a very light at under 100 pages and he spends 33 of those pages talking about cooling and cooking food. In his post crash world there is a big issue with cooling or cooking food but apparently after grid crash there is no problem actually getting the food. If there is, he does not address the issue. Personally I have become accustomed to eating.

Second, he spends less than 2 pages addressing heat (in the winter). If you live in the North one would hope Mr. McBay would address the topic as a lack of fuel would definitely have an effect. His suggestions are pitiful. Light a fire (great if you live on the third floor of an apartment with no fireplace) and put on more clothes. Brilliant! I need someone to remind me to get dressed. How about a simple suggestion to prepare yourself by getting a high quality sleeping bag that can keep you alive when the temperature goes sub zero. No such common sense suggestions are to be found.

If you want a book on survival then buy one on that specific topic. May I suggest "SAS Survival Handbook". If you want a book on Self-Reliance then buy one on that specific topic. I would suggest starting with "Storey's Basic Country Skills" or "The Self-sufficient Life and How to live It" or "The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living". All these books are tomes of knowledge that may actually help you if hard times come to pass.