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chapter 3
Peak Oil or Liquid Coal?
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century, when the fuel runs out.
—David Goodstein, Professor of Physics, Caltech
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Importance: The peak-oil scare is being used by Big Oil, Big Coal and the military to lobby for a huge new government-backed synfuels program.
Main Ideas:
• Oil supply may well peak sooner than officially expected.
• Popular peak-oil "experts" (Campbell, Heinberg) predict about 4 billion dead.
• As shown by economics and the oil peak in 1979, this is complete nonsense.
• A plot of Deffeyes's prediction (which he avoids) shows it's off track.
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China and India have nixed caps. Without these caps, Kyoto fails. What can be done?
Carbonomics explains "wrecking" the economy, "peak oil," caps, carbon taxes, and Kyoto.
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