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The Climate Bonus
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The Climate Bonus

by Alison Smith
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
16h 23m
English
Routledge
Content preview from The Climate Bonus

5Secure and safe energy

Adapting to Peak Oil

Key messages

  • Continued dependence on fossil fuels poses risks for energy security. Production of conventional oil may have already peaked, and the best remaining reserves are concentrated in a small number of countries. Other countries will be increasingly forced to rely on lower-quality unconventional sources such as tar sands, and remote sources in sensitive areas such as deep-water, arctic and rainforest oil. Extraction will be more expensive, energy-intensive and environmentally damaging. As a result, there is a consensus that we face a future of rising oil prices, more frequent supply disruptions and escalating oil-related conflict. Similar trends are seen for gas and coal, with a shift to more ...
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