press release

A research study challenged the concept that “Peak Oil” will be a supply side phenomenon and predicts that the demand for oil may well peak before 2020 and then fall back to levels significantly below 2010 demand by 2035.

“The world is nearing a paradigm shift in oil demand,” said Peter Hughes of Ricardo. “The predominant role of oil in the global energy mix is facing an ever greater challenge from a number of emerging trends. Over the past few years a near ‘perfect storm’ for oil demand has been forming and gathering strength, created by a preoccupation in many quarters about the availability of future supplies.”

The global economy is headed toward collapse, revolutions are breaking out across the Middle East, famine is ravaging Africa and the world is approaching a peak oil crisis. No, these are not headlines ripped from the news; these are the challenges facing Windows and Mac gamers in “Fate of the World: Tipping Point from Red Redemption.”

This hardcore strategy game puts players in hypothetical situations within a realistic world, with threatening scenarios based on the latest science and modeling technologies covering the next two centuries. Players must balance economic, political and environmental needs in order to save the world (or destroy it).

Governments face protests and civil unrest as impact of climate change hits home. An analysis from a British thinktank outlines new challenges for maintaining national security.

A new book on meeting challenges of peak oil and global warming shows city leaders how to create their own plans to reduce local vulnerability to rising prices and volatile energy markets.

Over 60 prominent policy leaders, activists, scientists and scholars will gather to discuss the Global Triple Crisis in Washington DC:

– Climate Change

– Peak Oil (The End of Cheap Energy)

-Global Resource Depletion (including Species Extinction)

While the NPC do have some ‘hard truths’ in their report, they are surrounded in a dense matrix of mumbo-jumbo and irrelevant reassurances about how large the resource endowment is.