Last Straw

Mon­biot on peak oil and food pro­duc­tion: If the whis­tleblowers are right, we should be stock­pil­ing … If we are taken by sur­prise, if we have failed to replace oil before the sup­ply peaks then crashes, the global eco­nomy is stuffed. But noth­ing the whistle-blowers said has scared me as much as the con­ver­sa­tion I […]

Sounds like the U.S. has been play­ing silly bug­gers with oil pro­duc­tion fore­casts. From a senior fig­ure at the Inter­na­tional Energy Agency, who has now left but is unwill­ing to give his name: We have [already] entered the ‘peak oil’ zone. I think that the situ­ation is really bad. It’s worth listen­ing to the audio in […]

You’ve prob­ably heard more and more lately about global cli­mate change (or ‘global warming’) — and prob­ably a little too late — but there’s one thing politi­cians really really don’t want to talk about (apart from the Greens that is) and that’s our pending little energy problem.