The World Energy Crisis and the Task of Retrenchment: Reaching the Peak of Oil Production - Hardcover

"[This work] should be widely read as a guide to how the world avoids a global resource war. [It] should be mandatory reading for all public policy decision-makers who are still uninformed or unclear on the true definition of Peak Oil." - Prof. Matthew R. Simmons Simmons & Company International "This liberal error that [Itzkoff] expounds upon in great detail focuses on the misplaced philanthropy of the West in attempting to fight the irrationality of the revolutionary redistributionary totalitarianism of fascism and communism." - Professor John Glad University of Maryland"

Due to the unanticipated arrival of peak energy production, retrenchment and scarcity will be the themes of international discourse. This work probes the philosophical assumptions behind the world's planning lapse and how the sudden confrontation will affect our political and economic institutions.