Jim Puplava

Energy demand in the United States and China has been relentless. The appetite for more oil in the two fastest growing economies in the world goes on unabated.

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update brings data on overshoot and global ecological collapse to the present moment. It provides a short course in the World3 computer model, types of growth, and the various kinds of overshoot likely to occur in the current century.

“Powerdown” is a strategy that will require tremendous effort and economic sacrifice in order to reduce per-capita resource usage in wealthy countries, develop alternative energy sources, distribute resources more equitably, and reduce the human population humanely but systematically over time.

Stephen Leeb, co-author of The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself – AND PROFIT – from the Coming Energy Crisis talks about ever higher oil prices and how to profit from it.