Peak Oil And Darwinism: The New Denial Industry

Deliberate confusion and disinformation have, as ever, taken the driver’s seat in a non-debate now dominated by slogan trading.

Today in Spring 2006 we are sliding into a genuine Oil Shock, even admitted by our admired and respected democratic leaders in the shape of emergency G7 Finance minister meetings, and the upcoming Summer Energy Security Summit of G8.

The G8 includes a now ambiguous Vladimir Putin: friend of the West, or a tyrannical price-gouging oil and gas exporter bent on humiliating the consumer world?

In the communication world, the media machine, political party apparatus, citizen associations and NGOs, and what is called the “scientific community” are already drifting fast, and far apart. It is already possible to know simultaneously that Peak Oil “doesn’t exist” and that we are close to “the End of Oil”.

In other words, deliberate confusion and disinformation have, as ever, taken the driver’s seat in a non-debate now dominated by slogan trading.

Rasie the Hammer