Plundering the planet

By Tom O'Brien, originally published by From Alpha to Omega

February 14, 2013

NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed.

Image RemovedThis weeks guest is Ugo Bardi, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Florence. He specialises in resource depletion, system dynamics modeling, climate science and renewable energy. He is also a member of the scientific committee of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, or ASPO, is the president ASPO Italy, and a contributor to the Oil Drum, the best energy blog on the web. He is the author of several books, including "The Limits to Growth Revisited”, his upcoming book "Plundering The Planet", and even finds time to write his own excellent blog, Cassandra’s Legacy. Our discussion covers the role of volcano’s, Georg Bauer, the father of mining, space aliens, and climate change.

You can find his blogging work here:

http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.co.uk/
http://theoildrum.com
http://peakoil.net

And here is where you can get a hold of his books. 
 

Tom O’Brien

Tags: climate change, Resource Depletion

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