From the Left and Right: It’s time to get Political

The end of 2006 saw warnings from each end of the political spectrum. First there was a report issued by the Green Party, demonstrating how modern food markets place food supplies at risk from a fuel crisis, and second, an investigative piece revealing the far-right British National Party (BNP) strategy to capitalise on such a crisis to take political power.

Peak Oil, if you have never heard of it before, is a term meaning the point at which the global flow of oil supply, from the Earth’s crust to the market, reaches it’s maximum amount, and can thereafter only decrease. Because oil is the most fundamental resource to modern economies, the implications of it’s supply beginning to decrease are so profound, that – from food supplies to financial markets – almost no aspect of your life would be untouched. (You can find out more by reading here (short) and here (more detailed). So far the only political parties to (publicly) acknowledge the issue, in the UK, are the BNP, who were shortly followed by the Greens, both of whom first published on the issue in 2005.)

Peak Oil and Simpol