Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without A Country) |
‘The lorry that collects your rubbish won’t be running. Streetlights won’t burn. Hospitals will have to close. Factories will shut their gates. Offices will close. Banks will shut. There won’t be any more television programmes. You won’t be able to recharge your mobile telephone. Within a generation, five out of six people on the planet will be dead. I’ll repeat that. Within a generation, five out of six people on the planet will be dead. This isn’t the script for a horror movie. It isn’t fiction. It’s going to happen. And it’s already started’. (Vernon Coleman) |
The International Energy Agency has already published the draft version of a report telling countries to prepare contingency plans to use when the oil shortfalls start. (Find out in Oil Apocalypse what the policies recommended by the report include). |
(L. F. Ivanhoe, ‘King Hubbert-Updated’, 1997) |
(Vernon Coleman - from the preface to Oil Apocalypse) |
Matthew Simmons, Twilight in the Desert |