If the price at the pump is not giving you heart failure, Jeremy Leggett's The Empty Tank: oil, gas, hot air, and the coming global financial catastrophe will. Leggett, a geologist who used to work for Big Oil and is now involved with Greenpeace International, issues an urgent warning about both global warming and `the depletion of our energy supplies. He reviews the arguments about the "topping point" or "peak oil" when production starts to decline. In doing so, he asserts the industry and governments have been misleading us. Even when the bad news is accurately delivered, "our society is in a state of collective denial that has no precedent in history, in terms of its scale and implications." (p.3) Like so many others on all sides of the arguments, he calls for a Manhattan Project on energy alternatives. No matter how close the topping point, the situation is one that calls for concern and action. (Vairo Library HD9502.A2L425 2005)
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