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Michael Ruppert addresses some simple but widely ignored concepts relating to the critical role of oil and gas in the modern world. First, they are finite resources, formed in the geological past, therefore subject to depletion. Second, they have to be found before they can be produced. He then goes on to address the wider implications recognizing that there is a finite Oil Age. Many claims have been made that new technology will counter the natural decline, but there is an irony: the better the technology, the faster the depletion. The book then turns to related subjects, including foreign policy and the invasion of Iraq, the hopes for renewable energy substitutes, the impact on farming and population, and the nature of Money. The impact on the economy is a central theme of the book. It gives emphasis to the U.S. situation but also covers the wider World, ending with twenty-five sensible recommendations by which the United States Government could react to the unfolding situation.
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Oil depletion is starting in earnest, demand destruction is underway (to you and I that means growing unemployment), the basis on which our comfortable consumer habits and prejudices have been supported and sold to us western consumers (access to cheap oil) has already been undermined. The food production methods that have so amply supplied us (to obesity) over the last 50 years... depend on oil based fertilizers and pesticides. Read this book and recognise that the current depression marks just the beginning of some monumental and unstoppable change.
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An eye opening and stunning picture of apocalyptic times ahead. Everybody should read this book.
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You may have heard of Michael C. Ruppert. His views on a post peak-oil world came into the mainstream awareness with the 2009 movie "Collapse". Prior to this movie he has participated other movies pivoting around the same theme, along with some home videos claiming to give evidence to a great conspiracy behind the events of september 11th 2001. Some view him as a prophet, and some as a crackpot. Now he has written yet another book trumpeting his views.
This book consists of nothing more than a series of facts borrowed from all over the place. Don't get me wrong - I think the central arguments he delivers to a great extent are true, but this is not his work. He merely paraphrases what has allready been pointed out by others, and delivers these arguments as his own intellecual produce. Michael Ruppert runs an inferior website about peak oil that merely consists of a collection of deep weblinks (collapse-mapping, he calls it, soon starting to charge its users (surprise, surprise)) and some of his own comments strewn in here and there, usually in the line of "I told You so".
And this self-rightiousness is borderline unbearable. Many times in the book, he emphasizes his own (undocumented) predictions about current problems, and even if he could and had documented his claims, what good would it do? Michael Ruppert has absolutely nothing to offer, except pointing out that there are very big problems ahead of us, and that is a fact more or less evident for people with a minimal sense of reality.
So if you are looking for solutions to the way the world are turning, this book offers nothing what so ever. On the contrary he several times emphasizes that there are no solutions to the problems following the wake of peak oil. Forget wind, forget solar, forget waves etc and he might be right, but what is the point of all this, then? Does he want people to feel bad? More likely is a vanity thing, and maybe he is trying to round up new disciples. Since the release of "Collpase" movie Michael Ruppert has risen from obscurity, and more or less become the leading spokesman for the peak oil movement (allegedly against his own will), and has now decided to make a buck from it. At least it seems that way.
This book consists of nothing more than a series of facts borrowed from all over the place. Don't get me wrong - I think the central arguments he delivers to a great extent are true, but this is not his work. He merely paraphrases what has allready been pointed out by others, and delivers these arguments as his own intellecual produce. Michael Ruppert runs an inferior website about peak oil that merely consists of a collection of deep weblinks (collapse-mapping, he calls it, soon starting to charge its users (surprise, surprise)) and some of his own comments strewn in here and there, usually in the line of "I told You so".
And this self-rightiousness is borderline unbearable. Many times in the book, he emphasizes his own (undocumented) predictions about current problems, and even if he could and had documented his claims, what good would it do? Michael Ruppert has absolutely nothing to offer, except pointing out that there are very big problems ahead of us, and that is a fact more or less evident for people with a minimal sense of reality.
So if you are looking for solutions to the way the world are turning, this book offers nothing what so ever. On the contrary he several times emphasizes that there are no solutions to the problems following the wake of peak oil. Forget wind, forget solar, forget waves etc and he might be right, but what is the point of all this, then? Does he want people to feel bad? More likely is a vanity thing, and maybe he is trying to round up new disciples. Since the release of "Collpase" movie Michael Ruppert has risen from obscurity, and more or less become the leading spokesman for the peak oil movement (allegedly against his own will), and has now decided to make a buck from it. At least it seems that way.
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