The Final Energy Crisis

Contents......Page 4
Introduction......Page 7
Part I: Depleting Energy and Bioresources: The Fossil- Fuel Key......Page 11
1. Prediction of World Peak Oil Production......Page 17
2. The Assessment and Importance of Oil Depletion......Page 35
3. Farming and Food Production Under Regimes of Climate Change......Page 62
4. The Laws of Energy......Page 80
Part II: Regional Foci and Pressure Points......Page 93
5. The Caspian Chimera......Page 99
6. Dark Continent, Black Gold......Page 105
7. Battle of the Titans......Page 111
8. French Nuclear Power and the Global Market: An Economic Illusion......Page 122
Part III: False Solutions, Hopes and Fears......Page 133
9. Oil and Troubled Waters......Page 139
10. Oh Kyoto!......Page 145
11. Renewable Energy Limits......Page 159
12. Population, Energy and Economic Growth: The Moral Dilemma......Page 182
13. Apocalypse 2035......Page 192
IV: Partying on in the Growth Economy......Page 197
14. The Myth of Decoupling......Page 203
15. Crash and Crumble: Oil Shocks and the Bourse......Page 223
16. The Chinese Car Bomb......Page 234
17. A Reply to \"Global Petroleum Reserves - A View to the Future\" ( by Thomas S. Ahlbrandt and J. McCabe, US Geological Survey)......Page 239
18. Price Signals and Global Energy Transition......Page 243
Part V: After Oil......Page 261
19. The Last Oil Wars......Page 265
20. Future Settings: Perspective for Sustainable Populations \"After Oil\" in France and Australia......Page 271
21. A Projection of Future Coal Demand Given Diminishing Oil Supplies......Page 280
22. The Simpler Way......Page 285
23. Musing Along......Page 295
Notes on Contributors......Page 301
Notes......Page 304
Index......Page 319