According to the conventional wisdom, we live in a post-industrial
information age. This book, however, paints a different picture: We
live in the age of oil. Petroleum fuels and feedstocks are
responsible for much of what we take for granted in modern society,
from chemical products such as fertilizer and plastics, to the
energy that moves people and goods in a global economy. Oil is a
nearly perfect fuel: Energy dense, safe to store, easy to
transport, and mostly environmentally benign. Most importantly, oil
has been cheap and abundant during the past 150 years. In 1998, two
respected geologists, Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrere, published
a detailed article announcing that the "end of cheap oil" would
happen before 2010, which meant that the world would face a peak,
or at least a plateau, in global daily oil production in the first
decade of the new millennium. Today, two billion people under the
age of 14 have lived the majority of their lives past the point
when this century-long growth in oil supplies came to an end, which
also marks the end of the first half of the age of oil. This
transition has ushered in a new reality of high oil prices,
stagnating oil supplies, and sluggish economies. In this book, a
leading authority on energy explores the contributions and
continuing legacy of Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrere, the two
geologists who modified the terms of the debate about oil. The book
provides a unique perspective and state-of-the-art overview of
today's energy reality and its enormous economic and social
implications. - Covers a topic that eclipses climate change as the
most important but least understood challenge for contemporary
society - Explores the works of Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrere,
the leading authorities in the field of Peak Oil, authors of "The
End of Cheap Oil" (Scientific American, 1998), and founding members
of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas - Addresses
a broad audience of scientists, engineers, and economists in a
format that is accessible to the general public - Provides a
complete overview of the basic geological, chemical, physical,
economic and historical concepts that every oil consumer should
understand - Presents the latest information on oil production,
reserves, discoveries, prices, and fields in easy-to-understand
graphs and plots
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