Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World Michael C. Ruppert
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

They find that they need to borrow increasing amounts of money to provide promised services to their citizens. The Russians, at least, did not have to confront it in the company of complete strangers. They are the two post-World War II industrial empires that attempted to impose their ideologies on the rest of the world: democracy and capitalism versus socialism and central planning. This together with a range of other events, that all impinge on the global energy picture, has tended to take the media and public eye away from the energy crisis that was prominent before August 2008. Jan 26, 2010 - Translated from French by Laura Bennett Richard Heinberg is an important figure in the world of those interested in the energy crisis and its consequences, and one of the rare few, along with James Kunstler, to have had their work at Pétrole: la fête est finie), Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse and Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines. Jun 23, 2010 - The world is running short of energy-especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Yergin, Vice President of IHS and author of two bestselling books on the history of energy, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power and The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, said much has changed over the last decade in the "It was the year of Peak Oil," Yergin said, looking back at 2005, when the MIT Energy Initiative was launched and the first MIT Energy Conference conceived. Aug 13, 2013 - This post is based on a talk I gave as an "undistinguished speaker" to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) oil finders lunch in Aberdeen a few weeks ago. In my latest book, The Failure Of Laissez Faire Capitalism And Economic Dissolution of The West:Towards A New Economics For A Full World (Clarity Press, 2013), I emphasize that nature's capital, not man-made capital, This very readable book by a distinguished economist, Wall Street Journal editor, and Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury is a major challenge both to economic theory and to media explanations of the ongoing 21st century economic crisis. Oct 14, 2013 - Energy-of-Nations The Energy of Nations is about 'risk blindness' – society's apparently pathological inability to confront the looming crises of the 21st century. The risks in question here are chiefly climate change, oil depletion The peak oil debate, Leggett suggests, is ultimately about “the risk of a mighty global industry having its asset assessment systematically overstated, due to an endemic culture of over-optimism, with potentially ruinous economic implications. Even climate change models include far too much future fossil fuel use, in both their standard runs and in their “peak oil” scenarios. Energy and the Economy Slide 1. 2008 with the onset of the financial crisis. Egypt's oil production and consumption, based on BP's 2013 Statistical Review of World Energy data. Mar 1, 2014 - In October 2004, when I started working on it, an Internet search for “peak oil” and “economic collapse” yielded about 16,300 documents; by April of 2005 that number climbed to 4,220,000. The interconnectedness of resources with the way economies work, and the problems that occur when those . This will be one of my last posts on The Oil . Aug 17, 2011 - In this post, I will discuss my presentation.