Economic Crises and the Impacts on Public Health

Today I report on a study with public health officials from across the nation. These data are preliminary and being gathered through telephone interviews, with a few done face-to-face. I am speaking with urban and rural local health departments and a few state level offices.

The questions are not about peak oil per se; that topic would make for a short interview, indeed. I

Most important, if we are at peak oil, which may have been reached in either May 2005 or July 2008, then we are also at the end of economic development and growth AS WE HAVE KNOWN THEM. Currently, the International Monetary Fund is releasing a series of downward revisions of economic contraction throughout much of the world; and with a tent city expanding in the capital of California and Tom Friedman worrying about natural resource depletion, it is no longer extremist to contend that this is not a recession.

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