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Confronting Collapse: The Crisis Of Energy And Money In A Post Peak Oil World (2009)

by Michael C. Ruppert(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1603582649 (ISBN13: 9781603582643)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Chelsea Green Publishing

review 1: Not as comprehensive as Crossing the Rubicon, Ruppert's real magnum opus, however it is a good bitesize chunk illustrating the problems the US (and the wider Western world) face in a time of unprecedented crisis not seen, in the slightest sense, since The Great Depression. It also includes some recommendations for any political elite who want to take note, although, as Ruppert shows quite clearly, the "perfect storm" of crises is playing right into their hands.
review 2: This poor guy -- he actually has a number of good ideas, but he's so Frustrated and Exasperated and Angry and Snarky and RIGHT that he sounds like a conspiracy theorist.One major idea is worthy of serious discussion -- that because we're at Peak Oil, the US and the global economy keep on going ... morenowhere because we can't pump oil out of the ground fast enough to literally fuel a recovery. This state of affairs will continue until the oil extraction rate actually starts to drop, at which point we'll all be faced with economic contraction.But he needs to put this all out there in such a way as to invite discussion, not so that he sounds like a self-righteous, often-right-and-always-ignored Cassandra. less

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