Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World-A 25-Point Program for Action

摘要

This initially self-published book by Michael Ruppert (Crossing the Rubicon) gets an updated rerelease from Chelsea Green in conjunction with the documentary film Collapse, which features Ruppert discussing many of these ideas.Ruppert argues that energy and the economy are fundamentally, inextricably linked ("Siamese twins" in Ruppert's words), and therein lies the rub. "Energy, not money, is the root of all economic activity," he writes. Ruppert foresees a global financial meltdown unless "some fundamental sea changes to the way we view both money and energy are not made immediately."