Peak Oil Task Force Report - City of Bloomington - State of Indiana

FURTHER READING
The following sources provide useful information about peak oil and peak energy and
reveal a diverse range ideas on those topics. The Task Force does not necessarily endorse
every opinion in every work listed.
BOOKS
BROWN, Lester. Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in
Trouble. W.W. Norton, 2006. Plan B has three components: (1) a restructuring of the
global economy so that it can contain civilization; (2) an all‐out effort to eradicate poverty,
stabilize population, and restore hope in order to elicit participation in the developing
countries; and (3) a systematic effort to restore natural systems. http://www.earth‐
policy.org/Books/PB2/index.htm.
CAMPBELL, C.J. The Coming Oil Crisis. Multi‐Science Publishing, 2004. An
interdisciplinary treatment of how much oil remains to be found and for how long global oil
resources can continue to support the expected growth in demand. Campbell concludes
that given current production rates, peak production will be reached some time in the first
decade of the new millennium. Based on this conclusion, Campbell examines three
scenarios and offers some interesting insights into the possible consequences to a world
that has to adjust to a dwindling oil supply.
CATTON, William Robert. Overshoot: the Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change.
University of Illinois Press, 1980. Suggests that humanity has already exceeded the long‐
term carrying capacity of the earth and is now relying on the “phantom carrying capacity”
of non‐renewable resources that will some day disappear.
DEFFEYES, Kenneth. Hubbert’s Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage. Revised ed.
Princeton University Press, 2002. Deffeyes employs the methods of M. King Hubbert to
conclude that world oil production will peak in this decade.
DEFFEYES, Kenneth. Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert’s Peak. Hill and Wang, 2005.
Similar to Deffeyes’ earlier book, Hubbert’s Peak, but with updated information. Deffeyes
explains why Hubbert’s theory of peak oil obtains and makes a call for public and private
entities to develop urgent mitigation plans.
EBERHART, Mark. Feeding the Fire: The Lost History and Uncertain Future of
Mankind’s Energy Addiction. Harmony, 2007. Eberhart documents the history of energy
and the evolution of energy dependence. He demonstrates the imminence of the crisis that
looms if we continue current consumption patterns.
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