Thursday, September 9, 2010

What We Worry?

Alfred E. NeumanImage by Thomas Hawk via FlickrThe German Military is Freaked Out by Prospect of Peak Oil
A leaked study by the German military reveals that the Bundeswehr is taking the possibility of peak oil (the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, leading to a gradual decline) very seriously. The authors of the study, led by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Will, forecast a "shifts in the global balance of power, of the formation of new relationships based on interdependency, of a decline in importance of the western industrial nations, of the 'total collapse of the markets' and of serious political and economic crises."
Hope other nations follow suit and start worrying.
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