The Final Energy Crisis Book

Pt. I	Depleting energy and bioresources : the fossil-fuel key	5
1	Prediction of world peak oil production	11
2	The assessment and importance of oil depletion	29
3	Farming and food production under regimes of climate change	56
4	The laws of energy	74
Pt. II	Regional foci and pressure points	87
5	The Caspian chimera	93
6	Dark continent, black gold	99
7	Battle of the titans	105
8	French nuclear power and the global market : an economic illusion	116
Pt. III	False solutions, hopes and fears	127
9	Oil and troubled waters	133
10	Oh Kyoto!	139
11	Renewable energy limits	153
12	Population, energy and economic growth : the moral dilemma	176
13	Apocalypse 2035	186
Pt. IV	Partying on in the growth economy	191
14	The myth of decoupling	197
15	Crash and crumble : oil shocks and the bourse	217
16	The Chinese car bomb	228
17	A reply to "global petroleum reserves - a view to the future" (by Thomas S. Ahlbrandt and J. McCabe, US geological survey)	233
18	Price signals and global energy transition	237
Pt. V	After oil	255
19	The last oil wars	259
20	Future settings : perspective for sustainable populations "after oil" in France and Australia	265
21	A projection of future coal demand given diminishing oil supplies	274
22	The simpler way	279
23	Musing along	289