MY NEW BOOK is about what I see as an imminent global energy crisis of unparalleled awfulness. Its twin themes - oil depletion and global warming - I cast as the two great oversights of our times, and factors that will dominate the years ahead.
In writing it, I have drawn on experience gained in all three phases of my vocational life. I started out as a creature of the oil industry, teaching at the Royal School of Mines and researching oil source rocks, among other things, funded by BP and Shell. I also researched the history of oceans, and that research led me to jump ship to the environment ...
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