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"Energy descent" as a book category refers to works—fiction and nonfiction—that explore societies coping with a long-term decline in cheap, high-density fossil-fuel energy availability. These books focus less on sudden apocalypse and more on the political, economic, cultural and technological shifts required for reducing energy dependence: relocalization, resilience-building, permaculture and alternative transport, altered labor and consumption patterns, and new community governance. Narratives may be speculative or realistic, optimistic or cautionary, and range from practical how-to manuals for transition to novels that examine human relationships and institutions under constrained energy regimes. Central to the genre is the idea of managed contraction and adaptation rather than simple recovery to previous growth models.

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