Global Scale Politics

“If you knew about Hubbert’s Peak a decade ago – as oilmen Bush and Cheney surely did – perhaps you would regard occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq as an ugly but necessary price to pay in order to secure sufficient time for the U.S. economy to convert?

”Invading Iraq, writes Heinberg, ‘was more understandable – if no less morally and tactically questionable – when viewed in light of a single piece of information to which the administration was privy, but which was obscure to the vast majority of the world’s population. That crucial fact was that the rate of global production was about to peak.’”

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