Confronting Collapse

The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World

By: Michael C. Ruppert, Colin Campbell (Foreword by)

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The book that inspired the movie COLLAPSE. The world is running short of energy-especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases, threaten industrialized civilization, the global economy, and our entire way of life. In Confronting Collapse, author Michael C. Ruppert, a former LAPD narcotics officer turned investigative journalist, details the intricate connections between money and energy, including the ways in which oil shortages and price spikes triggered the economic crash that began in September 2008. Given the 96 percent correlation between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions and the unlikelihood of economic growth without a spike in energy use, Ruppert argues that the US is not, in fact, on the verge of economic recovery, but on the verge of complete collapse. Ruppert's truth is not merely inconvenient. It is utterly devastating. But there is still hope. Ruppert outlines a 25-point plan of action for the USA, including the creation of a second strategic petroleum reserve for the use of state and local governments, the implementation of a national Feed-in Tariff mandating that electric utilities pay 3 percent above market rates for all surplus electricity generated from renewable sources, a thorough assessment of soil conditions nationwide, and an emergency action plan for soil restoration and sustainable agriculture.

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'Ruppert has an unblemished track record for saying things that are incendiary, outrageous, shocking - and true!' Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything.

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Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
The Need for Leadership	p. 1
Thinking Like a President in the Face of a Global Problem	p. 15
Depletion: Refilling Niagara Falls with a Garden Hose	p. 22
Reserve Estimates: Playing a Fool's Game with Numbers	p. 34
Infrastructure and the Grid	p. 44
Iraq	p. 58
Saudi Arabia	p. 67
Food	p. 74
Evaluating Alternative Energies	p. 98
The Alternatives	p. 118
Localization: The Alternative to the Alternatives	p. 137
Money	p. 146
Foreign Policy	p. 164
Setting the Policy	p. 176
An Emergency 25-Point Plan for Action	p. 190
Epilogue-Entropy	p. 216
About The Author	p. 227
Endnotes	p. 229
Index	p. 239
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