Monday, April 25, 2005
The Long Emergency
James Howard Kunstler: "Now we are faced with the global oil-production peak. The best estimates of when this will actually happen have been somewhere between now and 2010 ... the most knowledgeable experts revised their predictions and now concur that 2005 is apt to be the year of all-time global peak production."
In other words, Kunstler asserts that more oil will be produced this year than in any year before or after. Combined with declining natural gas production and significant obstacles to coal production, Kunstler argues that the world will deplete its nonrenewable energy resources much sooner than previously anticipated.
From this central thesis, Kunstler describes almost unimaginable effects on global food production, economics, and politics, each currently based on a model of free flowing and inexpensive oil. Take a few minutes to read more at this adaptation of Kunstler's new book, The Long Emergency.
In other words, Kunstler asserts that more oil will be produced this year than in any year before or after. Combined with declining natural gas production and significant obstacles to coal production, Kunstler argues that the world will deplete its nonrenewable energy resources much sooner than previously anticipated.
From this central thesis, Kunstler describes almost unimaginable effects on global food production, economics, and politics, each currently based on a model of free flowing and inexpensive oil. Take a few minutes to read more at this adaptation of Kunstler's new book, The Long Emergency.
