[Peakoil] Peak oil - happy reading

[Keith Thomas]

Peak oil is just a particular manifestation of our dependence on energy  
and the way we have been able to expand our population (this week the  
UN told us there are 6.8 billion Homo sapiens crowding this planet  
("Plague Species" as Reg Morrison calls us) - hey, might as well call  
it 7 billion - and rising), but only through complexity and  
globalization (which cheap energy makes possible), but this trend also  
makes human civilization more vulnerable to not only a reduction in  
energy, but what will hit us well before that: a reduction in available  
energy per capita.

So, don't be distracted by the relatively low price of petrol at the  
bowser or oil in the markets. Peak oil predicted fluctuations in oil  
price when the peak was reached.

In the mean time I have just read a couple of peak oil novels. You can  
see my reviews on Amazon.co.uk (through whom I bought my copies).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0752893270/ref=cm_cr_dp_hist_4? 
ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addFourStar

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Retrieved-Future-John-Seymour/dp/1872410057/ 
ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237008248&sr=1-9

My review of a third peak oil novel, James Kunstler's "World Made By  
Hand", is here:

http://www.natsoc.org.au/html/publications/Journal%2008-2_kunstler.html

Happy reading!
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Keith Thomas
www.evfit.com
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