Oil Peaked !
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- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:02:10 -0700
A warning. Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
By Richard Heinberg
Without oil, what would you do? How would you travel? How would you
eat? What would everyday life be like?
The world is about to change dramatically and permenantly as a result
of oil depletion. Within the next few years, the global production of
oil will peak. Thereafter, even with a switch to alternative energy
sources, industrial societies will have less energy available to do
all the things essential to their survival. We are entering a new era
as different from the industrial one as the latter was from mediaeval
times.
The Party's Over deals head-on with the imminent decline of cheap oil.
It shows how oil and war have been closely related for the the past
century, and how competition to control oil supplies is likely to lead
to new resource wars in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South
America. Tracing the crucial role of fossil fuels in the rise of
industrialism, Heinberg discusses the degree to which energy
alternatives can compensate for oil, and recommends:
* a managed transition to a slower-paced, low-energy, sustainable
society in the future;
* a global programme of resource conservation and sharing implemented
by the US - the world's foremost oil consumer and the most mightily
armed nation in world history - in concert with other countries; and
* realistic ways for families, communities, nations, and the world to
prepare for the coming crisis.
A riveting wake-up call that does for oil depletion what Rachel
Carson's Silent Spring did for the issue of chemical pollution - i.e.
raising to consciousness a previously ignored global problem of
immense proportions -
The Party's Over is essential reading for all those concerned with the
future of modern life as we know it.
Gasoline will become more valuable than gold or silver.
This second edition is thoroughly revised, expanded and updated.
The World Is In trouble that will end in bloody wars for oil. Even
neighbors will be competing for a share of the black gold in order to
survive... prepare for bloodshed in the streets of America.
Should Saudi Arabia's oil producing fields come under final
attack...and they will soon....the entire world could come to a state
of economic depression.
Even if all the alternative forms of energy available are employed, we
will still be facing a massive reduction in energy resources -
meaning, inevitably, a change in lifestyle.
Whether we like it or not. America and her allies must negotiate peace
with enemies that have nothing to lose. We cannot bomb them into
oblivion. They are everywhere and using the ultimate American
weapon....the bomb.. will not stop them from their present mission to
get even with the west... especially the British and Americans....
that have been exploiting them at least since World War One and
before.
There are no winners without negotiating whether we like it or not...
Get ready for dark days or talk to our enemies.
George Washington:
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to
meet the enemy.
Jewish proverb:
Listen to your enemy, for God is talking.
Moshe Dayan:
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to
your enemies.
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If Evolution is out-lawed. Only the Out-laws will evolve.
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