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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Twilight in the desert is a great book - nice and double spaced, filled with a couple cute charts and graphs. Reads like a work of fiction.
It uses flawed arguments and a whole lot of conjecture. It's a 20th century version of Thomas Malthus.
While it does raise some interesting facts, it tries to draw conclusions from data we simply don't have.
Remember this - we really don't know when we're going to reach "peak oil", or the rate at which we will keep discovering oil, or the rate at which technology is advancing to make the oil that we can access economically recoverable. But saying this doesn't sell books.
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This approaches my level of condescension and that's why I like it.