Oil versus light: Jeremy Leggett

February 28, 2011

Alex Smith: This civilization uses oil for its blood. Almost everything we make, buy, and use has oil in it’s food chain. You know that.

Never mind that we are bleeding carbon into the sky and the ocean, or the developing climate shift. Even if oil was lily white, we are still running out of the cheap stuff – that we need for a global economy feeding billions of humans.

And we are determined to drive right off that cliff, without a Plan B.

An interview with Jeremy Leggett. The complete transcript follows below.

Listen to/download the interview here.
http://www.ecoshock.org/downloads/peakoil/ES_Leggett_110225_LoFi.mp3

Alex Smith

Host of syndicated weekly Radio Ecoshock Show - the cutting edge with top scientists, authors and activists. Eighth year on the air as of 2014. Previously a researcher for global environment group, print journalist, homesteader, world-traveler, and private investigator.

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