At last here is a clear and readable account of one of the most important but controversial issues facing everyone in the world today. If you are not already addicted to Tim Flannery’s writing, discover him now: this is his best book yet.

Professor Jared Diamond

"Powerdown is a brilliant analysis of the options available to a civilization facing resource depletion, biosphere collapse, and financial insolvency. Differentiating his book from the slew of peak oil books that have recently appeared on shelves, he makes a cogent, impassioned proposal for a strategy of self limitation, sharing, and cooperation while preparing for the possibility of collapse." 

David Room, Global Public Media

"Richard Heinberg has distilled complex facts, histories, and events into a readable overview of the energy systems that keep today's mass society running. The result is jarring. The Party's Over is the book we need to reorient ourselves for a realistic future."  

Chellis Glendinning PhD

"The Oil Depletion Protocol is required reading for political leaders, policy planners and anyone who is hoping for a smooth landing in a world soon to be short on liquid fuels and even shorter on options."

Andrew McNamara, MP, Parliament of Queensland

"... one of the best analyses of the sustainability problem that I have so far encountered ... The reader is taken on a journey of discovery that revolves around an excellent critique of economics, counterpoised against truly amazing insights into how all of life has self-organised from the simple origins of life through to the current complexity of the biosphere. ... its lucid analysis from a systems perspective provides an excellent insight to ... the often overlooked systemic role of the current financial system in driving unsustainability."

Richard Sanders, CSIRO