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Confronting Collapse
The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World

by Michael C. Ruppert, Dec 2009

This description of Confronting Collapse written by the publisher, edited by Grinning Planet.

We have been lied to about the stock market, AIG, Citigroup, hedge funds, bailouts, mortgages, 401(k)s, and our Ponzi-scheme financial system. We were lied to about the invasion of Iraq. Lies even permeate the issue of steroids in baseball. So why accept as truth everything we have been told about energy? Most of our energy information comes from the same corporate entities that have misled us about everything else.

In Confronting Collapse, Mike Ruppert exposes the lies that have been told about energy to protect corporate profits and a collapsing monetary system—the latter of which now threatens all of industrial civilization. The book says what an American president cannot say: that energy and money (the economy) are Siamese twins—joined so closely that they cannot be dealt with as separate policies. If energy gets sick, money must be treated simultaneously, and vice versa. But the present monetary regime is so broken that separating the money-energy twins in a way that saves and preserves life cannot take place without killing one or both.

Of the two, energy is more important to human life. Energy can do work. Energy grows food and pumps water. Energy moves goods and services. Energy sustains life. Money is useless without energy. Unfortunately, our current best energy source—petroleum—is depleting faster than we can transition to other sources. There is now no combination of alternative energies that we can move to quickly enough to sustain the complex, globalized human civilization that was built using cheap, plentiful oil.

Michael Ruppert is a world-recognized expert who saw today's crisis coming and started warning of it in 2000, creating a "map" of the players, policies, interconnections, and shadowy (and often illegal) activities that were making a collapse inevitable. Ruppert's speeches, books, and articles on the topic have already saved thousands of families from the current economic meltdown by stimulating them to make changes to protect themselves.

We cannot change the facts of rapidly depleting oil supplies or the collapsing debt-based, bank-run money system. But with Confronting Collapse, Ruppert outlines steps that can be taken at the individual, local, federal, and global levels to avert a potential extinction event for our species, thus laying out a course that can help us make the transition to What Comes Next livable—literally.

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