Book description
This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the
next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives that long. Draining the
lifeblood of industrial civilization, the terminal decline of oil and
gas production will spark a crisis far more dangerous than international
terrorism, and more urgent than climate change. World leaders know it,
so why aren't they telling? The last oil shock is the secret behind the
crises in Iraq and Iran, the reason your gas bill is going through the
roof, the basis of a secret deal cooked up in Texas between George Bush
and Tony Blair, the cause of an imminent and unprecedented economic
collapse, and the reason you may soon be kissing your car keys and
boarding pass goodbye. David Strahan explains how we reached this
critical state, how the silence of governments, oil companies and
environmentalists conspires to keep the public in the dark, what it
means for energy policy, and what you can do to protect yourself and
your family from the ravages of the last oil shock. David Strahan is
an award-winning investigative journalist and documentary film-maker,
and has worked for the BBC`s
The Money Programme
and Horizon
. He has produced major documenatries, including Inside the Enron Scandal
_‡and No Accounting for Greed
_‡ (about the collapse of Arthur Andersen). The Last Oil Shock
is his first book.
