Thoughts from Chris Sanders - Speaker

Perhaps the biggest challenge facing analysts of the Peak Oil issue is how to square a political circle circumscribed by capital dependent on an economic model biased toward centralisation and falling real wages with solutions that call for decentralisation, political devolution, local control and even a shift back to more labour intensive models of food production. This discussion has barely begun, and is in real danger of being drowned out by the noise of military solutions. Indeed, as war spreads steadily in the Middle East, the risk is very real that reasoned responses to the problem of bringing world energy demand into line with supply will be rendered simply irrelevant by events on the ground.

Chris Sanders