Paul Roberts (author)

{{main|The End of Oil}}

In his book-length debut, The End of Oil, Roberts gave an analysis of the various problems associated with humanity's reliance on oil and other fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas. The book received a number of positive reviews from American newspapers and review publications. Notably, environmentalist Bill McKibben, in an article for The New York Review of Books, described it as "perhaps the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications."{{cite journal

| last = McKibben

| first = Bill

| author-link = Bill McKibben

| title = Crossing the Red Line

| journal = The New York Review of Books

| volume = 51

| issue = 10

| date = 2004-06-10

| url = http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17179

| access-date = 2008-06-21 }}

In 2008, Roberts published his second book, titled The End of Food. It is similar in fashion to The End of Oil in that Roberts attempts a comprehensive analysis of food production with its intricacies and weaknesses. As a theme, Roberts asks whether modern agriculture, as it has emerged since the Green Revolution, will be able to feed a growing world population. The End of Food was described by Michael Pollan, a professor of science and environmental journalism at the University of California and himself an author of food-related non-fiction, as "the best analysis of the global food economy you are likely to find."Book jacket of The End of Food

In 2014, Roberts published his third book, titled The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification. The book was described by Elizabeth Gilbert as “tracing the country's many, disparate ills to the same source: as a nation, we've abandoned the common good. His analysis is smart, provocative, and timely. The Impulse Society compels us to reexamine what it is that we really want."{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-impulse-society-9781608198146/|title=The Impulse Society|website=Bloomsbury|access-date=April 12, 2020}}

Roberts lives in Washington State.

• Editions of The End of Oil

:*{{cite book | last=Roberts | first=Paul | title=The End of Oil. On the Edge of a Perilous New World | location=Boston | publisher=Houghton Mifflin | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-618-23977-1 | url=https://archive.org/details/endofoilonedgeof00robe_0 }}

:*{{cite book | last=Roberts | first=Paul | title=The End of Oil. On the Edge of a Perilous New World. With a new afterword | location=Boston | publisher=Mariner Books | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-618-56211-4 | url=https://archive.org/details/endofoilonedgeof00robe }}

:*{{cite book | last=Roberts | first=Paul | title=The End of Oil. The Decline of the Petroleum Economy and the Rise of a New Energy Order | location=London | publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-7475-7081-3}}

• {{cite book | last=Roberts | first=Paul | title=The End of Food | location=Boston | publisher=Houghton Mifflin | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-618-60623-8 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/endoffood0000robe }}
• {{cite book | last=Roberts | first=Paul | title=The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification | location=London | publisher=Bloomsbury | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-608-19814-6 | url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-impulse-society-9781608198146/ }}

{{reflist}}

• [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1874931 Interview with Roberts about The End of Oil] at National Public Radio on May 6, 2004 (audio)
• [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91375772 Interview with Roberts about The End of Food] at National Public Radio on June 11, 2008 (audio)
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080707074145/http://fora.tv/2008/06/18/Paul_Roberts_The_End_of_Food Roberts discussing The End of Food]}} at the Commonwealth Club of California on June 18, 2008 (video, with audio available for download)
• [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4212613816403909417 VIDEO: Paul Roberts keynote talk] at the Organicology Conference in Portland, Oregon, on February 27, 2009.

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