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I’ve just sent this message to the following email addresses. I urge anybody reading this to do similar.
ieapressoffice@iea.org; energyindicators@iea.org; energymarketsinfo@iea.org; energypolicyinfo@iea.org; weo@iea.org; epd@iea.org; stats@iea.org
(or you can decide on your own list of IEA contacts)
To Whom It May Concern:
I refer you to a recent report on the Guardian UK website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/09/peak-oil-international-energy-agency
If these facts are shown to be [...]

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Many respected critics have long speculated that official projections from the International Energy Agency, major world governments and the oil industry of how long oil production can be sustained for are exaggerated. Today this was substantiated:
Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower
Most people haven’t even gotten their heads around the fact that [...]

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Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Chapter III (by Oscar Wilde)
Oscar Wilde’s observation of the decline of moral values in late nineteenth century Victorian English society resonates with even more force today. This aphorism is behind more of the world’s ills than one might [...]

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Small Is Beautiful : Economics As If People Mattered
by E F Schumacher
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
by Michael C Ruppert
Heat
by George Monbiot
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography
by Webster Griffin Tarpley

(This list is ongoing)

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I sit on a man’s back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.
–Leo Tolstoy

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On October 3rd Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced, among other things, the creation of the new Department for Energy and Climate Change. This is the first substantial public recognition from the UK government that energy and climate change are inextricably linked and need to be addressed as such in government policy. The tiny blurb on [...]

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Dear Mr Mowshowitz,
Climate Change
Thank you for your further letter on the issue of climate change, which I received on the 10th of July 2008.
I have outlined to you my concern that climate change is an extremely urgent issue that must be tackled with strong measures, and without delay. Although I am not familiar with the [...]

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My wife and I live in northwest London. In June we moved to a different neighborhood and are now living under the jurisdiction of Brent council, represented by Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Teather. As soon as we’d settled in I read her profile on theyworkforyou.com and wrote her a letter concerning the urgency of strengthening [...]

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