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First National Preventive Health Research Programme YELP Holistic First Business Plan YELP Holistic First Business Plan Defined Terms SWOT Analysis Executive Summary Deliverables And Costs Snapshot Page To 10 Benchmark Techniques Defined Terms for Five YELP Business Plans Second National Preventive Health Research Programme Bohemian Teenagers Arts Assistance Programme First BTAAP Business Plan Bohemian Teenagers Show Choir Programme Defined Terms BTSCP Second BTAAP Business Plan Bohemian Teenagers Symphony Orchestras Programme Defined Terms - Bohemian Teenager Symphony Orchestra Programme Third BTAAP Business Plan Bohemian Teenager Ballet & Modern Dance Programme Defined Terms BTB&MDCP The Last Oil Shock - A Survival guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man Written by David Strahan (an investigative journalist, not a geologist),
based on interviews, refers to the “the last oil shock” to describe the impact
of “peak oil”. Strahan describes in detail just how dependent on fossil fuels modern economies have become for everything from heating and transport to, most significantly, food, and the critical impact this has had on human population growth. Russia, quite unexpectedly, turns out to have won the Cold War. It may have been forced to ditch its Soviet ideology, but of the three blocs, Russia alone has both the nuclear weapons and the oil and gas. China and the West, by contrast, are now competing supplicants for Russian resources, giving enormous power to Moscow.Despite the overwhelming evidence that Strahan is able to marshal to support his case, the officials in Whitehall and Washington are keeping the truth from the public at large who still seem all-too-easily lulled into the complacency of the “official ” version of events, that oil may not peak until 2037 or later, and that renewables and alternatives are being developed that will save the economy. Strahan's chapter on the economic impact asserts a dangerous underestimation of the importance of energy in the world’s economy providing a frightening task involving dealing with widely different fields such as geology, economics, politics and energy technology. The final two chapters outline patent recommendations, both for policy makers
and individuals, to reduce fossil dependency and prepare for energy shortages.
These include the radical suggestion that
governments should “scrap all airport and road network expansion forthwith;
there will be plenty of spare capacity soon enough”. He also calls for, in the
UK, the formation of a new “Department for Energy and Climate change” with a
cabinet-ranking Energy Secretary, with the remit to achieve “complete
independence from hydrocarbons by 2030, by expanding renewable supply where
environmentally acceptable and managing demand as necessary”. |
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