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As publishing of all testimonials we receive each day would bring the cost of one FTE, we stopped publishing them in 2008 (we rather use this budget for research/communication). Some of the old (2008 and earlier) testimonials you find below.




Many thanks for the Global Future Analysis. It is a very important document also for developing and poor countries, including Cambodia. The perspectives of analized themes, certainly, are suitable to global current situation focusing on the sustainable development. This is an invaluable document for me and my senoir officers who work for our green/clean environment, especially the analitical methods (science, environment/natural resources and socio/eco political issues) in line with the current and global situation.

(H.E. Mr. Khieu Muth, Secretary of State for the Environment, Cambodia)




An excellent project.

(Prof. J.M. Hultin, President Polytechnic Institute of NYU, New York, NY, USA)




An exceptionally thorough analysis, providing unrivalled insight.

(Nicholas Taylor, Economic Design Network, Australia)





Thank you very much for emailing the actual version of Global Resources Analysis 2008. We will consider to distribute among our network and are interested in cooperation and information.

(Brigitte Quehenberger, TRIALOG, Development NGOs in the enlarged EU, Vienna, Austria)





Thank you for making this extraordinarily broad and thoroughly researched analysis freely available. Please keep us on the list to receive revisions and updates.

(David Schrom, EcoMagic, Stanford, California, USA)





The material is interesting and valuable. Have you considered having it issued as a published book? We would be willing to consider entering into a publishing agreement with you that would ensure its distribution worldwide, with all the attendant publicity resulting from the reviews we would seek for a book. I.B.Tauris is an independent international publisher specializing in the study of the contemporary world. We have a powerful presence in the fields of international politcs, modern history and regional studies. Please let me know if you would be interested in opening discussions to explore some publishing possibilities.

(Iradj Bagherzade, Chairman, IB Tauris Publishers, London, UK)





It was great to receive a such global research product. With pleasure I will study it, and if I have some ideas I will give you my feedback.

(Alexander Duzhinov, Head of Investor Relations, OGK-1, Moscow, Russia)





The book idea is interesting.

(Greg Daniel, Daniel Literary Group, Nashville, Tennessee, USA)





Thanks, your consideration is much appreciated!

(Tim Harward, Financial Times, London, United Kingdom)





Your report sounds interesting.

(Carla Hacken, Fox, 20th Century Fox/Executive Vice President, Beverly Hills, California, USA)





I’m forwarding your inquiry to our editor-in-chief to see if he has any interest in the publication of your report.

(Joyce Seltzer, Senior Executive Editor for History and Contemporary Affairs, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)





Thanks.

(Jeremy Caplan, Time Magazine, USA)





This is an excellent report. Considering "or just the copyrights for own printed/digital customized versions, than contact me so that I can arrange this for you." What is the procedure for this?

(Guy James, The Guy James Show, Fort Myers, Florida, USA)





I have acquainted yourself with yours material. This was interesting.

(Tiina Juhansoo, Coordinator of Foreign Relations, Tallinn Medical School, Tallinn, Estonia)





I am sorry for late reply. I am very please to receive this document. It is very useful for me to analysis current energy situation. It can also be a important reference of climate change issues. I suppose that we must reduce demand of fossil energy. We have to be serious to explore alternative energy. We can develop the sustainable energy such as solar energy (particularly in the tropis countries). Thanks again. I hope the new version will be finished and I can read the new one.

(Indri Mustikorini, Head of Sub-Division United Nations Institutions, State Ministry of Environment, Bureau for Planning and International Cooperation, Jakarta, Indonesia)





Thank you very much for your message and report. Your report is very impressive –even without the need to read it completely. I would like to congratulate you for the obvious fact that you and your colleagues have invested an incredible amount of resources, time, energy and goodwill in order to produce such a comprehensive report. I will make sure that I will study it throughout the week and give you a detailed feedback. In the meantime, just a quick and brief note after I spotted on a few things in your report and on your corporate web site: I think we can do a major proofreading and “fine tuning” the content of both your report and the main company web site. I am sorry for this so dreadfully direct comment, but having been a seasoned journalist and linguist, I can’t help to behave like a proofreading software even when I am reading a shred of paper with something printed on –professional old habits die hard! Perhaps we might have a meeting in Amsterdam as I am intending to travel to Amsterdam in near future, very likely in the next three weeks, in order to visit several Amsterdam-based not-for-profit organisations I have worked with in the last two decades. I believe we can discuss a number of issues and some project partnership ideas that instantly came up as soon as I started to speed-browse through your report. I am confident that you have not been approached by any other parties for such partnership ideas. Please let me know if you consider a meeting in Amsterdam as appropriate. Please do keep in touch and I am looking forward to receiving your news regularly in future.

(Umit Ozturk, Chairman of the Amnesty International Journalists' Network, CEO of the regional think tank Mediterranean Resources Network, Mernet, Brighton, United Kingdom)





Thank you for sending this interesting Global Resources Analysis. I will read it carefully. Thank you again for including me on your distribution list and I look forward to reading your analysis.

(George de Lama, Managing Editor News, Chicago Tribune, Board Member Overseas Press Club, Chicago, USA)





Thank you. I'll take a look and send it around to some members of the Editorial Board.

(Liz Harris, NY Times, USA)





Many thanks. Appreciated.

(Jeremy B. Bentham, Vice President Global Business Environment Royal Dutch Shell, Holland)





Om een leuk en interessant initiatief onder de aandacht te brengen is het platform www.voordewereldvanmorgen.nl de manier.

(Lea Kroft, VoorDeWereldVanMorgen, ASN Bank, The Haque, Holland)





Thank you for sending.

(James Howard Kunstler, Author/Speaker, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA)





Thanks! I'll check this out very soon!

(Cassandra, Oil Release, USA)





Thanks a lot.

(Athanase Gahungyu, former Treasury Secretary Burundi, CEO Banque Africaine de Développement Cameroun/Chad, Yaounde, Cameroun)





Madam Shikova asked me to reply you and to thank you for your letter. She will circulate it to interested target groups. We in the Information Centre, we will be really grateful if we could receive a copy of the report for our Library.

(Diana Dimova, Information Officer, Information Centre of the EU, European Commission Representation, Sofia, Bulgaria)





Met de inhoud van de analyse kan ik grotendeels instemmen. Mijn zicht op waar we momenteel staan in de wereld is dat we bij het huidige aantal mensen en onze huidige manier van produceren en consumeren stevig in aanvaring komen met de grenzen van wat deze planeet kan leveren zonder cruciale evenwichten te verstoren. Dat laatste zijn we in feite al aan het doen. Daarom ligt er in feite een culturele opgave om een nieuwe manier van leven, een nieuwe cultuur te ontwikkelen, gebaseerd op een nieuwe generatie technologie. De essentie daarvan is dat we wat ik noem: leren leven uit de stroom en gaandeweg ophouden met leven uit voorraden. De mensheid moet zich (weer) plaatsen in het cyclische karakter van het leven. Het verder ontwikkelen en gebruiken van de inmiddels beschikbare duurzame energie-technologie is daarvoor essentieel, evenals recycling van materialen. Verder ben ik het zeer eens met het punt dat u maakt over localisering van economische processen.

(Herman Wijffels, Executive Director representating Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, WorldBank, Washington, USA)





Many thanks for sharing this with me. I have not had time to read it carefully but have flipped through. It is timely -- scary yet hopeful that the solutions are quite feasible. I personally believe that human beings need to discover an alternative vision of "good life". Even if we can find alternative and less polluting sources of energy and food, the idea that the earth might some day be littered with 3 or 4 billion cars (following the current US standards) is obnoxious. The planet is for us to enjoy but it is also for us husband and care for.

(Deep Joshi, Executive Director, PRADAN, Professional Assistance for Development Action, New Dehli, India)





I am in receipt of your communication regarding the Global Resource Analysis. we will use this material, circulating among our network members. ASSEFA, a Gandhian institution completes its 40 years of service among the rural poor. A brief note on its 40th year celebration is attached for your information. We would be very much honored, if you could be with us for a couple of days during this celebrations. You will have an opportunity to take your message to the large audience of NGO families. Whom we expect at least thousand every day for this week long events.

(Shri S. Loganathan, Co-Founder and Executive Director, The Association for Sarva Seva Farms, ASSEFA, India)





Thank You for so quick answer and interesting additional facts in Your letter. I've got Volume I from my friend some days ago and almost studied it all. There are a lot of interesting facts, deep insights into the nearest future, it is very useful for me as a journalist and editor. I've seen, that You prepared Volume II "Action Plan 2008" in April - or I am wrong? If You have it, can You be so kind and send this Volume to me? I'm editor-in-chief of monthly magazine Fortuna Privata, it's young enough magazine, only two years published, oriented to business peoples and to managers, so I think problems You analyse are very actual and interesting to them. Before I was editor-in-chief of weekly newsmagazine Veidas for seven years. That's about me, I would be very thankfull if You would send, if possible, Your newest researches in this energy field.

(Liudvikas Gadeikis, Editor in Chief, Weekly Veidas, Vilnius, Latvia)





Thank you.

(Prof. Alhajji, College of Business Administration, Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio, USA)





Thank you. Very interesting analysis.

(Festus Ilako, Head of Programmes, AMREF, African Medical and Research Foundation, Flying Doctors, Kenya Country Office, Nairobi, Kenya)





Thank you very much for the report you have sent me. I find very useful for my activity as member of the parliament - drafting laws, shaping policies.

(Vasile Puscas, MP, Committee for European Affairs, Parliament of Romania, Bucharest, Romania)





Thank you very much for your Analysis and address for more high res copy on the web. It would be interesting to read this document.

(Maria Sulanova, Institute of Information and Prognosis of Education, Bratislava, Slovak Republic)





Thank you for this.

(Bruce Stanley, Staff Reporter, Wall Street Journal, New York, NY, USA)





Many thanks for information.

(Tekla Zabova, Chairperson of Board, Latvian National Association for Consumer Protection, Riga, Latvia)





We are pleased to receive your letter. It is very interesting and certainly important information. We are interested in it. Our publishing house issue 3 periodical journals, various books, broshures and etc. And everything, what we are publishing is about nature. So, could you answer me for some questions. We are not planning to print The Global Resources Analysis 2008 at this time, but we think, that some of this information we would like to publish in our journal about nature. Have we a possibility about this? Please, answer me all about this, write me all conditions. Thanks in advance.

(Diana Kuckailyte, UAB leidykla Lutute, Kaunas, Luthuania)





I would like to acknowledge your document that you sent some time back. It arrives at a timely moment for us in Tajikistan as we consider the current compound crisis we are living with: sever winter freeze, shock increase in food/fuel prices, and poor harvests.

(Marydean A. Purves, Country Director, Mission East, Dushanbe, Tajikistan)





It is very interesting and perhaps I am going to give a lecture on it.

(Ali Sattari, Nuclear Research Center for Agriculture and Medicine, NRCAM, Karaj, Iran)





I read the report with immense interest. The coverage is fantastic and in a free flowing language, which personally I like. Thanks again for sending me this report.

(Nitin Phansalkar, Coordinator of Desertec India, India)





This looks like a very important and interesting report. I will read it with the appropriate attention. Thank you very much for sending it to me and for the work you and your team do for all of us in this planet.

(Rogério Studart, Executive Director, Representating Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Philippines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Worldbank, Washington, USA)





Sorry for the late response, I just read the email and the report. Thanks for sharing.

(Bobby Ramakant, Health & Development Networks, INGCAT Task Force of South East Asia, India)



Thanks and be blessed.

(Dr. Alaster Samkange, University of Pretoria, South Africa)





Een zeer indrukwekkende verhaal.

(Aafko Schanssema, Association of European Plastic Manufacturers, Brussels, Belgium)





Thanks you for free education you have given to me. It has been send to as many of my friends as possible.

(Justinus Setshedi, Chairperson, Parole Board, Zonderwater Management Area, Department of Correctional Services, South Africa)





Thank you for sending me the draft publication of the Global Resources Analysis 2008. I find it useful for both research and teaching.

(Dr. Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah, Sunyani Polytechnic, Sunyani, Brong Ahafo, Ghana)





Thank you very much for send me the copy of Global Resources Analysis, I will read it with attention, I am the Technical Director of the National Water Commission in México and a university professor, and the copy will be very important for me.

(Prof. Felipe Ignacio Arreguín Cortés, Sub Director for Mexico’s National Water Commission, Morelos, Professor at National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico)





Thanks for your interesting Analysis. I will circulate it!

(Juan F. Gallardo Lancho, University of Salamanca, Senior Scientist -Investigador Científico- of the Spanish C.S.I.C, Salamanca, Spain)





I would like to thank you for sending to me the report Global Resources Analysis 2008.

(Dr. Saxhide Mustafa, Deputy Executive Director, Riinvest Institute for Development Research, Prishtina, Kosova)





Thank you for forwarding me very interesting Report. I've announced about it on the WWW site of our Institute.

(Dr. Saulius Maskeliunas, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Vilnius, Lithuania)





I would like to thank you very much for sending these excellent analyses. Thank you very much. Looking forward to our further cooperation.

(Muhamet Mustafa, Chairman, Riinvest Institute for Development Research, Prishtina, Kosova)





I do concur with your sentiments. As an official who works in the municipal environment, renewal energy resources are of particular concern because of the electricity cuts imposed by ESKOM, the national electricity supplier. My work involves interacting with potential developers who are interested in developing major housing schemes within the municipality, but who are currently constrained because of the lack of capacity within the municipality to meet their electricity requirements. They are being advised to investigate alternative energy resources and prepare more energy efficient layouts and house designs. (Perhaps that is not a bad thing taking into account the proposed cost increases for electricity which ESKOM is currently debating in public fora). I have forwarded your e-mail and attachment to the Strategic Executive Manager who is in charge of Infrastructure, Facilities and Services (including electricity) within this municipality, for his information. His name is Mr. Mashoko.

(Val Spearman, Senior Project Manager Housing, Government South Africa)





Thank You for sending your report. I have downloaded it and will carefully read it and keep in touch with you.

(Dr. Nguyen Van Vuong, Institute of Materials Science, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam)





It was good to meet you in Kobe. We had a good conversation and we are certainly interested in collaborating with you in the area financing for climate change, including the organization of a side event in Bonn From our part. Carolina Fuentes will be attending the Bonn meeting and you can count on her for support and participation. I wish you success in this important event.

(Enrique Lendo Fuentes, Titular de la Unidad Coordinadora de Asuntos Internacionales, Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, Government Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico)





Thank you for a really very interesting report.

(Irena Falalejeva, Director Latvian Buelorussian ensemble „Nadzeja”, Vilnius, Latvia)





Thanks.

(Phil Matsheza, Policy Advisor Anti-Corruption, Democratic Governance Group Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Program, UNDP, New York, USA)





Thank you very much for your reply and I would like to please you to send us printed publication in English version in July 2008. I would be delighted to have your publication in our academic library how I wrote you before.

(Ing. Heidy Schwarcova, Slovakia)





Thanks fascinating reading.

(John Budd, Regional Communication Officer, CEE CIS Region, UNICEF, Tbilisi, Georgia)





Many thanks for your kind email of 26 May 2008 together with the draft of the excellent report on "Global Resources Analysis 2008". Those who wrote this important report should be congratulated. It gives us on insight, not only in the existing situation affecting the world, but presents scenarios and recommendations for the future. This report should be read by policy makers around the world, and I promise that economic and political think tanks in Egypt will be aware of it. May I invite you to write a four page article on the report which will be published by the Egyptian" Economist" Magazine. Once again many thanks and hope to see you in Cairo soon.

(Ambassador Ahmed Haggag, Secretary General of African Society, Cairo, Egypt)





Thank you very much.

(Leszek Kuk, Poland)





Thanks. I am concerned with this issue. Thank you for your report.

(Eugenio Vega Pindado, Author, Spain)





Thank you. This does look interesting.

(Martin Wolf, Financial Times, London, UK)





Thank you so much. The Global Resources Analysis 2008 is a valuable and comprenhensible tool for decision making and a better understanding of the interwined factors in the situation as a whole.

(Roberto Escalante, Viceminister of the Environment and Natural Resources, El Salvador)





Thank you very much for GRA 2008.

(Vladimir Baar, Assoc. Professor, Head of the Department of Human Geography and Regional Development University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czechia)





We will read the Analysis.

(Antonia Koperdanova, Program manager, Central European Foundation, Slovakia)





It is a pleasure, thank you. May God bless you.

(Regina Mandere, World Vision International, Malawi)





Thank you.

(Vjacheslav Vasin, Latvia)





Thank you for sending me a copy of the Global resource Analysis 2008. I'm delighted at having the opportunity to be kept abreast of the current development in global resources. Excuse me for asking, but can you help me recall where me met. Did you get my address from somebody else? I'm very grateful of your effort to keeping me updated and that's the reason why I ask. I'm looking forward to reading from you.

(Saliou Kane, Programkonsulent, Fredskorpset, Norway)





I thank you very much for the publication that you sent me and for the possibility to contribute my comments and notes as well. Right now my working situation does not allow me to read it properly, however I am passing it to my colleagues with the purpose of detailed reading. After a brief look, I evaluate the book as very interesting and offering precise information. I thank you again and if I have any commentaries after I read the book I will be very glad to send them.

(Prof. Eva Cihelkova, University of Economics, Prague, Czechia)





Many thanks. Please be sure to keep me on your circulation list. I am living in Europe, Zurich and Montpellier, and also spend around 6 months per year in Singapore, at the National University of Singapore, (NUS) as Adjunct Assoc. Professor for business sustainability by new product /service development. Clearly a lot of new products/services are more and more "energy related". I am also in touch with the Energy Studies Institute of NUS and will likely be doing investigations e.g. about the growth of nuclear power in South East Asia - having spent many years in the nulear power business myself. However, sadly, talking informally to several well-informed people, is seems the fatalistic view is growing that "we are too late to avoid very great difficulties in the future, and the "politics" will prevent the fast and effective remedial actions needed . . " - rather like the observations in your e-mail message . . . Personally, I think that in all the discussions, planning and policy-making, one area is not receiving as much attention as needed to exploit the the easy opportunity quick wins available: i.e. reducing waste, of all types, and some obvious means of reducing the need for energy - and so reducing consumption. I will need some days to study your report - then I will come back to you with some feedback.

(Dr. John Arthur Bauly, National Univerity of Singapore, Singapore)





Thanks for the report. This problem is much bigger than you wrote. Anyway good to hear people are fighting for a better world.

(Anna Horvath, political scientist, Hungary)





Thank you for your e-mail with the copy of Global Resources Analysis. It is really a very good report and I am sure that this publication will be a good teaching aid for our students. I would be very grateful, if there is an opportunity to send us one of the printed publications by official way to add it in our academic library, in English ( or in Slovak - if it is translated). Also, I would like to know if there is a possibility for our Centre for renewable resources and low-power technologies to take part in your next projects and which conditions our University has to meet for the cooperation with you. Our university would like to have the copyrights for own printed material, because when it is in Slovak language, it will be more available for our study programme Enviroment and Regional Development, so I would like to ask you for more information how to get the copyrights.

(Ing. Heidy Schwarczová, University of Central Europe, Skalica, Slovakia)





Thank you for sharing the attached report. It arrives to me at a good time as my firm, Pacific Bamboo Resources (PBR), continues to advance on projects which I gather correspond with themes / issues / opportunities represented in your text. I will certainly give your draft report a read and share it with colleagues and students. Thank you again. Please do keep in touch.

(Jonathan Scherch, Antioch University Seattle, WA, USA)





Thanks.

(John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA, USA)





Thank you for the Report. I will read through it and come back to you if I have comments. Good luck for all!

(Erita Narhetali, Faculty of Economics, University of Warsaw, Poland)





I published on my blog: http://finalmentelibero.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1642982%3ABlogPost%3A8802

(Flavia Flavia Marzano, Bologna University, Italy)





Thank you for bringing this report to my attention. The content and approach you are taking are certainly of interest to me, particularly the issues you raise concerning "peak oil". However, I am not capable of dealing with this document in the form of a (for me) very large computer file. At present I am on a short-term appointment in the Division of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo in Kashiwanoha. This means I am using borrowed e-mail facilities to remotely access my MIT account. I do not send e-mails to anyone with such a large attachment, and I do not know how to put anything on the web. Since I am just finishing things up prior to my return to MIT next week, I will not have the time to read through this material until after I return. Therefore may I please ask you to mail a printed copy. This should reach my office by the time I am back there and I look forward to reading the report and getting back to you with comments and questions later in the summer. Thank you for thinking of sending this to me and for accommodating my technological limitations.

(Prof. J.I. Steinfeld, M.I.T. Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.)





Thank you to send me this document. It will be very useful for my work and my life.

(Eduardo O. de Aspuru Gutiérrez, Coordinador de la Comisión Ambiental de Jesús Obrero Institutu Politeknikoa, Presentador de The Climate Project Spain, Spain)





Thank you very much for this valuable document, which will be of the upmost importance for my organization, as we deal with environmental infrastructure projects along the US – Mexico Border, and energy has become one of the most important issues in the region.

(Dr. Alberto Ramírez López, Environmental Projects Manager / Gerente de Proyectos Ambientales, BECC/COCEF, El Pasa, Texas, US, Chihuahua, Mexico)





Thanks for the report. It sounds quite interesting and I will endeavour to read it.

(Anyong, North Korea)





Thank you very much for the valuable document. I will read it really carefully while it is coming at the very right moment. Of course, I will distribute the document as wide as possible.

(Fedor Cerne, Governmental Office for EU Affairs, Slovenia)





The European Academy of Sciences and Arts wishes to explore if there is an opportunity for mutually beneficial co-operation in the context of the “Budapest Round Table 2008”. The project falls under the auspices of socio-economic research. Each year, one research field is chosen to be brought together at an annual event to exchange best practice and results. The project is highlighted in the attachment. This year the focus is on “inter-cultural business dialogue” in the global environment where actors are increasingly interlinked and mutually dependent economically. Specific attention is being paid to the relations between Europe, the People's Republic of China, and India. Knowledge of and experience with each other’s culture, language and business traditions are necessary preconditions for mutually beneficial interaction. Erhard Buzek, former Vice Counsellor of Austria and Prof. Goverdhan Mehta from India will moderate the round-table that will take place on 6th – 7th November 2008 in Budapest at the premises of either the Hungarian Academy of Sciences or the National Parliament. About 36 individuals –business people, researchers, educators, etc– will be invited from Europe, the People's Republic of China, and India. In addition, the audience will include invited individuals (students, press, etc.). The discussions and the outcome will become part of multi-media material that will be distributed internationally (Europe, the People's Republic of China, India) and give ample opportunity for company profiling. We are looking forward to your response. Sincerely Yours,

(Dr. Gilbert Fayl, Secretary of External Affairs, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Brussels, Belgium)





Thank you for your interesting report. I will read it and send you my comments as soon as possible.

(Roberto, Honduras)





Many thanks for your report, which I have to read completely, but your precis says what I have been trying to tell everybody for sometime. As you say, they are on denial. I shall send to as many as possible. I have given talk on CSP!!

(Peter Foreman)





Thank you. The information you sent is very much important. Thank you once again.

(TLeane M.J, Limpopo Office of the Premier, Transversal HRD and Planning, South Africa)





Thank you very much for sending me over the Global Resources Analysis 2008. I would like to read the abstract – if you allow. Maybe I can use some of the information in this report to tell my students in one of my lectures. Thank you very much!

(Dr. Phil. Dirk Jungels, Technical University Munich, Faculty of Sport Science, Institute for Sports, Media and Communication, Munich, Germany)





Thanks, will peruse through the report.

(Rufus, Amos Murerwa, Family Health Options Kenya, Kenya)





Thank you very much. It is really very interesting information.

(Juhan Särgava, Saidafarm, Estonia)





A tiempo de agradecer su comunicacion, deso consultar si es posible que se la haga en español, estare a tento a su respuesta.

(Elias Clavijo, Gobierno Municipal H. concejo SCZ, Bolivia)





I received the mail and I thank you for this information. Now I'm in Johannesbourg In South Africa and I'll come back to my contries week. I'll reply to you.

(Christophe, GROUPE Béatitudes)





Most impressive piece of work! If I may, inspirational. I will share with the colleagues. I also checked the site of growindus: have you any engagement at present on the food shortage crisis? Best and thanks a million.

(Pasquale Lupoli, Head of Operations Support, International Organization for Migration, IOM, Geneva, Switzerland)





Thank you very much.

(Ricardo Jordan, Economic Affairs Officer, Sustainable Development and Human Settlements Division, ECLAC, Santiago, Chile)





I have a book where Slovenian scientist dr. Viljem Rupnik made with mathematical formulas the proof that domination of capital is a trap for human race. It is scientific on very high level and maybe you should add his mathematical proof with explanation in Global resources Analysis. Dr. Viljem Rupnik is international known scientist –see his references in attachment. I will forward this to him. I hope on his positive reaction. I am happy maybe I did something useful because sometimes looks the situation here so hopeless. What are you going to do when this analyse will be finished? Who is paying for the analyse? I had a short conversation with Dr. Rupnik and he seems to be interested in collaboration with you. I think you should contact him first.

(Barbara Trunkelj, Kmetijsko Gozdarska Zbornica Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenia)





Herzlichen Dank und Congratulation für die ausgezeichnete Globale Resourcen Ananlyse.

(Uwe Moeller, Club of Rome, Germany)





Thank you very much indeed for the Analysis. There are things to think about. As far as the Ukrainian context is concerned there are too many simplifications there. What I would like to stress is that our relations with Russia are much more complex then the Analysis describes. First of all, our Gas transport system is a single "entity" combining high pressure and distribution lines, which can not be separated. Meanwhile, we are not buying Russian gas as such but rather that of the Central Asian origin. That what drives our relations with Gasprom - they are responsible for the delivery of volumes contracted for us in, say, Turkmenistan to our boarder and this is certified at the entry point by customs documents. Non payment last October was not due to our inability to pay for it but rather because of a decision of Gasprom to cut 25% of that gas, saying that Turkmenistan undersupplied it, and immediately without any warning to replenish it with what they called Russian gas. But what was the price! They doubled it. At the same time Turkmenistan said that Russians were cheating - all contracted volumes for Ukraine had been taken by Gasprom. I hope that you are aware of an intermediary in this case - RosUkrEnergo. That was the core of our problem. It turned out that Russians intended to sell contracted gas for us at a double price! The problem popped up, when RosUkrEnergo refused to disclose all their docs related to these supplies. Moreover, Ukraine at that time had no need in that much gas as far as we consumed less and RosUkrEnergo had the right to export saved volumes. Do you feel the difference? They wanted us to pay double price for gas we did not ask for and export gas not consumed internally (our gas) at the European price. Regretfully, the transparency issue vs. Gasprom not touched upon in the Analysis at all.

(Viacheslav Kniazhnytskyi, Counsellor Mission of Ukraine to the European Union, Belgium)





Yesterday I participated at a conference of the SFEN (French Nuclear Society). (Yes, I have read the “Swindle”….) CO2 tax is a kind of a by-product of market liberalisation, at least for Europe and not the result of the “strong nuclear lobby”. I don’t see any strong nuclear lobby. Instead, what I see is a kind of a similar “how to kill any new technology”-type mechanism that was widely used by the oil-lobby. If you see the first wave of investment in renewable technology/research. Big oil companies also invested in renewable research companies, and when private-small investors also flowed into this area they just quit. Failure was pre-guaranteed. Now you may check private investors wish to enter again the same gamefield… Similar might still happen to nuclear as it is still too fragile. Yesterday it was presented that in EU markets NPPs produce electricity at marginal cost and why marginal costs are different for different countries. Marginal cost is much lower for nuclear countries than for non-nuclear ones. I don’t have the slide, but attach an excel file, where you can see correlation between nuclear share and electricity prices in the EU. This might be a kind of an input for your report. Regarding don’t hurry: World needs solutions now and not tomorrow. Lead times for new reactors are currently around 10 years. If don’t act now, politicians, decision-makers will look for short term solutions again, with long term (negative) consequences… I am just convinced in nuclear technology (well it is my personal problem…).

(Pal Kovacs, OECD, Paris, France)





Thank you so much for this information. Is extremely useful for us! I will check it out

(Martha Delgadom, President of the Mexican Citizen Presence Organization, Advisor to the Presidency of the National Ecology Institute, President of the the Confederation of Environmentalist Groups, Special Commission for the General Management of Water, Mexico)





Thanks for the report, I will try and read it and comment. You know I only recently joined the Claverton Group after years of Dave Andrews trying to lure me into the discussion. Why? I just knew it would be a very time consuming thing to do! Still, as you say, it is important. Anyway, you have certainly caught the zeitgeist with your report. I hope it is successful for you.

(Mike Coulten, Energy Alert, Head of Strategy for the Energy Information Centre, UK)





Thank you very much, I will circulate it for sure.

(Prof. Emer. Dr. Matjaž Mulej, Faculty of Economics and Business, Video Lecturer, University of Maribor, Slovenia)





As the replacement for Douglas I got that report and value it a lot. Could you please add me to the distribution for further publications and delete him since he left the company recently.

(Carlheinz Bayer, Senior Emissions Compliance Engineer, BMW of North America LLC, USA)





Thank you very much for the report. I am very interested and engaged in the area of global development including modelling. So I can and will contact you only on that plane. So I forwarded the Analysis to Professor Tomasz Heese, the Vice-Rector for Research and Cooperation with Industry which is responsible for research in our University.

(Urszula Marchlewicz, Vice-Rectorat for Research and Cooperation with Industry, Koszalin University of Technology, Koszalin, Poland)





Thank you for your Global Resources Analysis. I don’t feel to be an expert in this field and evaluate it but at first sight it offers a lot of interesting information and ideas. The small problem is to find them as orientation in Analysis is complex. Maybe in a final version it will be easier.

(Marian Hantak, Director, United Nations Trans-European North-South Motorway, Road and Bridge Research Institute, University Of Economics, Warsaw, Poland)





Interesting!

(Nico Grobler, Holland)





Ik heb het boek doorgebladerd, het ziet er indrukwekkend uit, ik wens u er veel succes mee.

(Prof. Dr. E.H. du Marchie van Voorthuysen, Directeur van de Stichting ter bevordering van Grootschalige Exploitatie van Zonne-Energie GEZEN, Partner van SOLAQ, Lid van Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation, Holland)





I will share this very interesting report to my colleagues in the office.

(Zhigang Weng, World Food Program)





Thanks, will look at it!

(Theo J van Vuuren, Executive Coordinator South Africa Operations Division, Development Bank of Southern Africa, South Africa)





Thanks. Very interesting analysis.

(Kamau, Oxfam International, UK)





Thank you very much for sharing this report that full of analysis on the current situation and condition of most of aspects on available resources on the earth. Your analysis and prediction on the future situation are very useful though scaring since in many aspects are bleak. I will read more carefully and revert to you with my comments. Best regards,

(Kusuma Adinugroho, United Nations Development Programme, Head of Peace Section CPRU, UNDP, Indonesia)





I am just reading your e-mail and the opening part of the document and found it is interesting. Will spend my time to carefully read it. Many thanks to include me in the distribution list.

(Titi Moektijasih, Liaison and Coordination Officer, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN, Jakarta, Indonesia)





Thank you very much. Most interesting and alarming. I built my autonomous house 33 years ago. Everybody laughed.

(Prof. Dieter Holm, Secretary of the International Solar Energy Society, ISES, Universiteit van Pretoria, South Africa)





Thankx! All the best!

(Dr. Jutta L. Mueller, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany)





Vele dank. Ik stem heelhartig saam met deze siening van het situatie. Verskoon mij eenvoudige Hollands, ik zijn een Afrikaner en ik probeer maar die twee tale ooreenkom! Ik wil die inligting nogmaal bestudeerd en dan weer met u kommunikeer oor het onderwerp. Die feite op het grondvlak kom egter heel eenvoudig voor - soos u wel tereg het opgesommen doen. Minder, koste meer. Klaar. Met het wydverspreide politieke misverstande en populistiese grootgepraat daarbij. Meanwhile, governments are kicking their heels. Ik geloofd het wel dat de politiekes niet een antwoord hebt voor deze probleem. Finite world, finite resources, finite time...? Very interesting. I am the motoring editor and senior staff writer of the Cape Argus, a daily afternoon newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa. I have been with the paper 22 years. I have already written almost exactly what you had written about some months ago and I have also taken the same line in a story I wrote for SA Wildlife Magazine. Although I love cars (classic cars especially) I am also a realist. Yes, governments are all about power, but I do not agree that the answer lies with the average person. Especially not in South Africa, where politics are still determined along racial lines in a them and us scenario. If the average person had the power, where were the decent Germans in WWII? And don't tell me there weren't any decent Germans at the time (I know, they took your bicycles and you still call for it every time you play them at soccer, but that's another story). The more humanity is told how free it is, the more it behaves like a flock of sheep. People in democracies the world over have been lulled into a false sense of freedom and security. Look around you, they come and go the only way they know, sticking to the familiar and hoping somebody else will solve the problem. The science that brought us global warming, ozone depletion and the most efficient war machines ever, is now called upon to save our rear-ends. At the same time, the Greens are shouting out their completely unrealistic demands of so-called clean energy and renewable energy. But it is interesting to note how they always demand action from others while they sit on the side-lines and criticize. At the same time, they are often so ridiculous, they are like some churches - in stead of winning people to the cause they become an inoculation against their own message. The question to ask is: what IS the answer, after all the bluster and bragging. Or, IS there one? I will formulate an article on this and submit it for publication. But then I need to know a bit more about you and your organisation, how are you involved, why are you doing this and when and where the full global resources analysis will be available to the general public. Let me know soonest.

(Henri Du Plessis, Journalist/Editor, South Africa)





Thanks! I've passed it around to several other members of the editorial board, who are more apt than I am to write about resource-related issues.

(Jon Healey, Editorial writer, Los Angeles Times, USA)





I have read your summary and what you say seems to accord with my rather pessimistic view of the situation. Some people don't seem to realise that if energy prices drop as a result of industry or consumers not being able to pay for fuel or electrcity, this will effectively mean mass employement at best, and famine at worst. Part of the problem is that "organisations have no memory" and this includes Governments.

(Fred Starr, chair of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, USA)





Thank you so very much for the impressive project that you have undertaken and the brief introductory summary – which I liked (incl. your appropriately cynical observation of eliminating oil tax to stimulate consumption) – it is and we are in a mess, briefly put; I am equally concerned about the impending antitrade votes in US congress. Unfortunately, I am currently racing against a deadline with my own projects so that it is impossible – as tempting as it is, though – to enter into a discusasion of your important points with any depth or adequate analysis. Thanks so much for including me for your publications and I hope you will continue to keep me informed.

(Hugo M. Kaufmann, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, Director, European Union Studies Center, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, www.euromatters, NY, USA)





The draft report you sent me is a nice survey of the problem and I applaud your attention to solutions. I do not have the time to provide a detailed review at this time, for I have some bills to pay and other obligations I have undertaken. I apologize if some of my comments were addressed in parts of the report that I did not skim. I was not able to give this the attention it deserves. I think you could usefully add some discussion about integration of solutions. For example, because PV is most productive during periods of peak demand, it can reduce baseload requirements (which, except for peakers, tend to be run at constant levels 24/7 because it is so hard on equipment to change operating conditions, thereby causing the waste of massive amounts of fuel) and has the additional benefit of reducing distribution losses. If PV is combined with heat collection, the PV output will be increased, heat island effects reduced, and other combustion needs reduced. Even more integration might address what would a good, comprehensive national or local energy policy might require. Or how companies are going about reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. And the role of the insurance industry in furthering the cause. I like most of your photos, but I would take out the picture with the crying girl in the center. I think it is an ivasion of privacy that is not warranted. If you are ready to consider something bigger -- I would like to see a climate change conference or workshop that would use a technique called Breeder Net, developed by Arthur Gillman of Canada. Arthur is days away from finishing a product that will explain what I am writing about. You could include the results of such a conference or workshop in your report. The technique is capable of taking a modest (my understanding is that 5 to 20 is best, but Arthur can address this) number of people with remarkably different points of view and expertise and making it possible for them to map the way out of this mess in approximately 2 days. More amazing, afterwards the participants would be on friendly terms and would have insights deeper than they ever dreamed possible. You could propose action plans that would make your report highly valued by those who would like to change the direction in which humanity is currently moving. Best wishes in your endeavors.

(Judy Kosovich, Capital Sun Group, Maryland, USA)





Thanks for the report; very interesting… and worrying. I will circulate to interested colleagues.

(Jeremy Harrison, Innovation Consultant, E.ON Engineering, Nottinghamshire, UK)





I find your letter extremely useful and I am happy to forward it to some of my contacts. I also downloaded the Analysis itself, but I can’t promise that I can actively take part in any debate.

(Edit Herczog, European Parlement, Brussels, Belgium)





I am much obliged to you.

(Fernando Nogueira, IFDR, IP – Instituto Financeiro para o Desenvolvimento Regional, Minister of the Parliamentary Affairs 1985-1987, Minister of Justice 1987-1990, Minister of National Defense 1990-1995, Presidency 1987-1995, Portugal)





Thank you. I look forward to reading the report and hopefully writing a story - will also send you some comments, if possible. regards

(Edwin Naidu, Senior Writer and Editor, Sunday Drive, The Sunday Independent, Johannesburg, South Africa)





Thanks for this. I will invite you to the Claverton Energy Group.

(Dave Andrews, Claverton Energy Group, UK)





Thanks.

(Xolani Dube, housing.gov.za, South Africa)





Thank you for sharing this important docment with me. I will circulate it to my friends and at the appropriate time send you my coments.

(Alfred K. Ofosu Ahenkorah, Executive Secretary, Energy Commission, Ministries Post Office, Accra, Ghana)





I want to thank you sincerely for sharing such an important document. Since receiving already referred to as the consultation document. I give you a document which I think is also of interest. http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2007-2008/chapters/spanish. I hope to humanity that there is time to react to this global crisis, "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" says Gabriel García Márquez. One suggestion, hopefully leaving soon in Spanish.

(Luisz Olmedo Martinez, UNDP)





Many thank! I really enjoyed talking to you. Let me know when you are in Austria, so we can show you round.

(Christine Leitner, Head of Center for European Public Administration (CEPA), Danube University Krems, Programme Director European eGovernment Awards, Course Director MPA, Austria)



Thank you very much for kindly sent me the "Global Resources Analysis 2008". I'll read it with interest.

(Jorge Villarreal, Program Coordinator, Heinrich Boll Sitftung, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean's Regional Office, Mexico)





I just visited your website. It is very impressive. I could not found an energy specialised section/group/direction. Do you plan to have one? As you mentioned in the report energy will be the power of the future. INDUS need to be prepared for that. Am I right? Thanks for the Russian site. First let me congratulate for your efforts in putting together the report. I study different expert visions on a regular basis. Prognoses of the IPCC, IEA, IAEA, WEO, EIA, WNA and the NIC on the near or long term future are all rather interesting and specialised in some way. Your report I found something different. Probably it is because I am an engineer, but I have an overall feeling that a strong factual basis (%s, numbers, shares, etc.) is missing beyond the argumentation. There are no numbers, no facts, only discussion and conclusion – a synthesis report. The discussion concludes in a misbalanced energy picture. The Science fiction for me is there are no timeframes indicated. One never knows if projections would be the near, mid-term, far or very far in the future. Probably the future will be misbalanced in favour of solar energy, however, the reader need to understand, how the authors arrived to such a conclusion. Presentation of factual data would improve the report largely, otherwise it will leave the reader in dark. However, I found lots of conclusions that I must agree with. But strong factual arguments are needed to support the statements. After the first read I have a bit mixed feelings about the report. Being involved in nuclear power generation I found it unfair forgetting nuclear energy. On the other hand I felt renewable (and especially solar energy) something overarching in the report. At a very-very long term the report might be right, but at short-mid-term I feel it to be limited. Do you really want to have something on nuclear energy? Or your sponsors are from the renewable industry, where the word “Nuclear” is still something forgettable? Regarding nuclear energy: Civilian use of nuclear power began with the opening of a few comparatively small (50 megawatts electric, or MWe) nuclear reactors in the mid-1950s. From that modest beginning the industry grew to 437 operating reactors with a generating capacity of over 371 GWe at the end of 2007, when nuclear power accounted for 16% of the world’s electricity output. In addition, 34 reactors with a total generating capacity of 28 343 MWe were under construction in 13 countries at the end of 2007. Almost 1/6th of electricity production worth mentioning… There are a lots of discussions on the future role of nuclear power generation. One might recognise, that nuclear power generation is almost zero CO2 emitter technology, the inherently safe new reactor generation does not need any RandD – it is already on the market, it is a cheap producer of energy, and a centralised large scale producer of energy. Applications of nuclear power are different: electricity production, heat production, water desalination, hydrogen generation and please don’t forget the medical applications, that demands much more resources globally than power generation. Some of the points are the same than for solar power… One of the most important advantage of nuclear power is its continuity. Production does not depend on the weather, the sunshine, etc. that makes nuclear power applicable for distant places, where no sun or no wind is in place. Once the IEA formulated that future energy mix should consider all applicable non-pollutive ways of energy production (“…both renewable power and nuclear energy must be a part of the energy mix…”), I am sure, that nuclear will play certain (or even important) role in the future. We at NEA made some estimations on the potential role that nuclear can play in parallel with renewable, and we came to the conclusion, that for the centralised way of energy distribution the input will be provided largely by renewable and nuclear power in some decades. If your report would discuss nuclear power as “part of the solution” the report would be more balanced. Further comments: I could not found as much on hydro power. What is the reason? When you conclude on page 106 that “Grid operators mostly will play a role in central water or energy storage solutions” hydro power considers both… Also I feel a bit missing the links between hydro power generators and the grid operators that are expected to play more important role in water economy. After the first reed it seems to me missing the share of centralised and decentralised ways of energy production. Just the reader could imagine the importance of each. The report leaves the reader unconvinced if any of them is preferred. When stating on page 9 that renewable energy will be cheaper than fossil energy and it will boost renewable energy generation, my experience is that the renewable energy today is not cheap, the first wave of huge capital investment is over without a real technological breakthrough (see the debate on renewables in the UK). Indication of the timeframes, separate discussion on solar, bio, wind, hydro, etc. and cost data (energy technology learning curves and their possible future evolution) would help readers… I am also not sure if environmentalists would easily allow “super sized windmill parks at sea…” (see the debate in the UK). It is common for renewable and for nuclear energy: large power capacities would need huge initial investments but it should not steer their penetration. IEA prognosis: IEA is our sister organisation at the OECD. The statement is true, however, the statement can be extended to all expert or non-expert organisations that are dealing with prognosis on the future based on analysing the past statistics. (As you note on page 97: “…Most analysts only make photos of the past…”) I completely agree with you: past data nowadays does not help prognose the future. Prices are rather driven by the market, and market is a set of expectations. Statistical assessment of past events and current macroeconomic models does not work now. New assessment methodologies are essential! On page 22: the world can handle global population growth… To what extent? Or to what time frame? I am not so optimistic as you. However, if you consider natural disasters and all effects of global warming you might be right, more and more people would die as a consequence of human activities: the globe regulates its population by itself… Page 24: the sun will shine and the wind will blow… When and where? Population of Northern countries suffer a lot from limited sunshine. Finland is going to use more nuclear. Sun and wind does not help them. Losses of transmission from Africa to Finland would be too high even with the improved transmission technologies… So: there are limits to your statement or there is not enough explanation in the report. Page 19: Common believe is not common knowledge… On the other hand: common expectation is more proper than any expert judgement… (and this drives current oil prices high and hectic). Regarding solar power please don’t forget possible future role of space applications that are missing from the report, however they might get more importance in the near future at least to provide light during dark time periods. If you mention protectionism today, one can imagine similar type protectionism in the future when “non-solar” countries will depend on “solar” ones. The same situation as for natural gas (Russia-Ukraine conflict). May I also ask, whom the report is addressed? Finally let me congratulate you again. Please understand well, I don’t want to change anything in the report as you were asking. I only tried to explain my very first feelings on the content and my comments are similar to those I receive from my “clients” on our vision and the soundness of its’ technical basis. I really don’t know what are the contributions behind the report, so please take my comments as critics from someone who does not know anything about the project. I apologise, if any of your intention not yet reflected in the report is touched by my comments. What I want is only to encourage you and your team to continue this work, and make as precise, correct and fair, as it could be. Please let me know if a new (draft) version is issued!

(Pal Kovacs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, Paris, France)





Well received. Will have a thorough look. Thanks, with kind regards!

(Tu, Lance Jingtang, Asian Fixed Income Trader, Global Markets, Standard Chartered Bank, China)





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(Tiit Kask, University of Tartu, Estonia)





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(Dr. Josaia Samuela, National Adviser for Family Health, Director of Public Health, Fiji)





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(Justin Peters, Business Development Manager Skymeter Corporation, Council Executive Assistant at City of Toronto, Canada)





I thank very much to you for this report. I would like more information in the future, but I prefer receive it in Spanish language because my English is not so good y I can read so slowly… Please, can you send me the publication in Spanish? I would thank you for advance.

(Dr. Eduardo T. Peña Triviño, Vice President of Ecuador, Ecuador)





Thank you, you are on point with your comments. We hope that the next national administration in cooperation with the world community will begin to make the hard non-politically expedient decisions that will protect the future for all the worlds children.

(John DeFina, dep.state.nj.us, New Jersey, USA)





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(Johana Horakova, European Parliament, Secretariat of the Non-Attached Members, Strasbourg, France)





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(Lekha Prasad Chaulagain, DRSP, DRILP, Lalitpur District, Nepal)





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(Laureta Madegwa, Caritas Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya)





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(Phal Sophat, Executive Director, Battambang, Cambodia)





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(Prof. Chris Sorrell, School of Materials Sci. & Eng., University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)





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(Néstor M. Riaño, Agronomist PhD, Head Plant Physiology, Cenicafe-FNC, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia)





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(Dr. RoseEmma Mamaa Entsua-Mensah, Water Research Institute, Accra, Ghana)





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(Garba Abdu, Nigeria/IIP/HPN usaid.gov)





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(Shashi Bhattarai, CEO, Development Dynamics Pvt. Ltd., Development Research Engineer, Integrated Consultants Nepal Pvt. Ltd. (ICON), General Secretary, IT Professional Forum, Nepal)





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(Prof. Assen Jablensky, Director Graylands Hospital, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia)





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(Jorge A. Landa, Energy and Climate Change Advisor, USAID/Mexico, U.S. Embassy in Mexico)





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(Edmundo Quintanilla, Swedish International Development Agency, Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, BID, IADB, Inter American Development Bank, Nicaraqua)





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(Steve Prey, Coordinator, Caltrans Energy Conservation Program, Vice Chair, Governor's Energy Policy Advisory Committee (EPAC) Member, National Transportation Research Board, Special Task Force on Energy and Climate Change, dot.ca.gov, California. USA)





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(Dr. Gorrettie Ssemakula, Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Prod. Research Institute, Kampala, Uganda)





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(Dr. Silas Obukosia, Agricultural Biotechnology Specialist, US AID, Nairobi, Kenya)





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(Dr. Everd Maniple, Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda)





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(Dr. Charles Ssekyewa, Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda)





Thank you for the report. I already sent it in our networks and I hope people will be interested to read it.

(Rodica Novac, director of the Association for Organization Development, SAH ROM, Bucharest, Romania)





Thank you for valuable analysis, I shall forward to my colleagues interesting in global problems.

(Sandor Deme, KFKI, Atomic Energy Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)





I think that review of Global Resources analysis is very wide and interesting. I shall disaminate it for environmental profesionals and deciding makers. Thank you for your job.

(Sandra Krivmane, olainfarm.lv, Latvia)





You raise vital issues.

(Tehana F. Weeks, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)





If you do not mind, could I have the copy of Volume III (Finance Model)? May be it could an input for my Boss for next Wednesday meeting on Financing for Energy. Thank you very much for your attention and cooperation. May be I just want you to add more about energy efficiency especially on technology and financing, it is related to CO2 emission reduction. Excuse me what do you mean by I see: Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources? I work for government office. I am so surprised for your e-mail and the attachment of Global Resources Analysis 2008 Vol. I (pre-publishing version), the information in it is very useful for us especially on energy. I am very interested in it, would you mind sending me the final version of Volume I, Volume II and Volume III. I will spread them among my colleagues internally, should I pay for the copyright? I hope you could give me free of charge. Thank you very much for all of these.

(Devi Laksmi, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Indonesia)





Thank you for sending a copy of the draft. I think it is a good document. But I will be able to add my input if I have a french translation. Is it possible?

(René Abouo N'Guessan, Directeur Général CFCC, Association Interprofessionnelle des Systèmes, Financiers Décentralisés de Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast)





Thanks for your information. I will read deeper before response to you.

(Ms. Nining Purnamaningtyas, Ministry of Forestry, Jakarta, Indonesia)





Thank you very much for this enlightening documents.

(Dr. Francis Adatu, National TB Programme Manager, Uganda)





Thank very much for the report which is very informative and revealing. Yes it is very interesting and I'm certain others will find it useful and for this I want to thank you again for letting me share this with other colleagues.

(Maurice Mbolela, Executive Secretary, LGAZ, Local Government Association of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia)





Thank you very much for the book, it is excellent issue and very useful for me and my students. We are looking forward to next volumes.

(Prof. Dr. Jiri Hrebicek, Academy of Sciences prize 1985, Viktor Kaplan prize 1978, Member of WG 5.11 IFIP, Chairman of EnviroInfo 2005, Vice chairman ISESS 2007, Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Science and Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)





Many thanks for your sending me the excellent report! I appreciate your analysis.

(Yuanhua Hua Li, National Center of Irrigation and Drainage Development, Beijing, China)





Seems like a great work. I want to go through it before commenting anything. Thank you.

(Dr. Vilas Manohar Upadhyay, Water Engineer, Mangalore, India)





Muchas gracias por la informacion quiero enviarme mi hoja de vida para poder colaborarles en lo referente al medio ambiente en mi pais Colombia, aqui tenemos muchas cosas que podemos ayudar para mejorar el medio ambinete.

(Maria Cristina Castaño Valencia, Fundaguadua Foundation, Buga, Colombia)





Many thanks for your article and communication the Peak Oil / Peak Coal related issues/effects/dangers for companies. I will resend to any people that will be interesting in this topics. I take a quick look at www.growindus.com (fresh food production within/nearby cities, in/after Peak Oil). Very interesting.

(Gustavo Urrea, Bio-trade Manager Lafarve, President of the Board Nativa, Representative Bionativa, Colombia)





Many thanks for you message with very interesed report on doble world crisis (energy and food). I will contact you for discussion afer reading this report.

(Hassan El Bari, Géosciences de l'environnement, Université Ibn Tofaïl, Morocco)





Thank you for the analysis 2008, I will have a good reading of it and then my comments later. I have observed that countries in the developing world such as ours in Southern Africa are and still will suffer a lot under such global changes and somehow we do have some challenges on how to tackle such problems. This is because these countries ( southern Africa) have wealth in natural resources but trouble comes when they have to get value for them in return. My comments later then. Tell me more about your finance model or is it part of the Analysis? Yes you are right (too complex for one small e-mail). But I think I can grab something from what you told me as both econometrics and finance investments are at play here.

(Ocean Zibuse Simelane, Swaziland National Provident Fund, Swaziland)





Thank you very much for this document which appears to be a substantive work very interesting. I will transmit it to some people who will certainly be interested in this work.

(Laurent Boutot, Ecology expert, programmer analyst, public policies evaluation, water management, Branch Director, Oréade-Brèche, Toulouse, France)





Thank you very much for sending me the Global Resource Analysis-Volume 1, 2008.

(Choup Kosal, Rural Development Bank, Cambodia)





Thank you for your work. I will back to you next week.

(Issotina Kassimou, Executive Director, Lambassa ICA Benin, United Nation Environmental Program, Cotonou, Benin)





It is pity that you are not a seminar man. But I am sure that we will find other ways for cooperation when our thinking and ideas in EuroFound are progressing. Thank you for many emails. They helped a lot of my thinking. I have drafted a proposal for our internal use where I propose to start a project with a start workshop. This is a new project and we have to think about the financial resources if there is any left. We will invite you and your colleague into that seminar. When it will take place is open at the moment.

(Timo Kauppinen, EuroFound, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions)





Thank you very much. Very useful reading materials. I have shared with like minded folks here.

(Charles Nyandiga, United Nations Development Programme, Programme Officer, Natural Resources and GEF, Kenya)





Thanks for the highly informative analysis on global resources. I will revert back to you for any clarifications.

(Charles Mwandila, Town Clerk, Mufulira Municipal Council, Mufulira, Zambia)





Thank you very much for sending the report to me.

(Trygve Berg, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Noragric, Norway)





Thank you for this...

(Nesa Subrahmaniyan, Bloomberg Newsroom, Singapore)





I thoroughly enjoyed reading the text. I think the analysis is too pessimistic. Before I find myself falling on the floor laughing (FOFL), my view is that this is NOT one of the scores of annual doomsday predictions which never materialize, but there are at least four things we can do about it: 1) reduce demand (demand down, prices down); 2) increase supply; 3) pay the high price of everything by hook or by crook, Robbing Peter to Pay Paul, reducing payment to something so we can increase payment for something else – I think this is called budgeting; and 4) I have no idea what the fourth thing is, but likely there is a fourth thing – oh yes, it is doing without. The easiest way to reduce demand is to increase prices; second, mandate work-at-home strategies to reduce the demand for fuel for internal combustion engines (that is, commuter cars). The easiest way to increase supply is to harness non-traditional, innovative technologies, like waste-to-energy, solar, wind, geothermal, and dare I say, nuclear, and of course, reduce barriers to international energy and commodities trade. Either way, I am grateful for Indus Corporation for taking the lead on these earth-shaking issues, as they are “sharing a passion for profit, performance, people and planet by innovation.” Bless them for such a noble cause. I sent an email a few weeks ago to the Federal Environmental Executive, giving my best shot at reducing high energy prices overnight, at no cost. Simply if the President would issue an executive order requiring all federal agencies to mandate work-at-home strategies. That would lead to all governors doing the same, all mayors the same, all large corporations the same. Even if only 5 to 10 percent would comply, the fuel demand would drop, demand would drop, and prices would, duh, drop... Go figure. I got a response. Seems the president has issued such an executive order, several years ago, but there is little follow through. Go figure. Please call or email me with questions/issues.

(Barney P. Popkin, FSL, CHMM, CAL/PG & REA, Environmental Protection Specialist, Cognizant Technical Officer - Environmental Management Capacity, Building Project, USAID/Asia-Middle East/Technical Support, US Aid, Washington, USA)





This sounds very interesting. Many thanks in advance. All the best.

(Enrico Chiesa, Co-Team Leader, Euromed Audiovisual, European Union, Brussels, Belgium)





Thanks for the update. Looks like our politicians have gone to sleep at the switch. Too much “look out for your seat" in government and not enough character. Thanks for the notice.

(John Deal, Insight to Freedom, USA)





Thank you for sharing this comprehensive study with me. Many thanks also for pinpointing to the Global Resources Analysis network group which I intend to join soon! As for the report I can say it is a great work well done. I am certain it will help many to realise what the mankind has to deal with in very close future. l have been already distributing the analyses to friends and those interested in alternative energy sources. Wishing you lots of good luck and success in the next phases for proclaiming the PeakX consequences worldwide. I will appreciate if you add my email to your distribution list for further valuable documents you intend to share in future.

(Ivan Balinov, Association for Organic Beekeeping, Bulgaria)





Thank you for the document. Hope you can send related documents to me in the future.

(Atazona Luke, Policy Assistant, Budget Analysis and Advocacy, ISODEC, Integrated Social Development Centre, Accra, Ghana)





Thanks ! What I can help technically, I am ready to support you.

(Bhola Ghimire, MSc in Hydropower Engineering, Secretary General, Telecommunications Employees Association of Nepal, Nepal)





Many thanks!

(Ederson Augusto Zanetti, Florestas Researcher, EMBRAPA, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Engenheiro Florestal; mestre pela Universität di Friburg Alemanha; professor convidado junto a Harper College Chicago/USA, Brasília, Brasil)





We would like to thank you very much for the pre-publishing copy of the "Global Resources Analysis report" which you addressed to Mr Stancic and which found his utmost attention. Please note that we forwarded it to the adequate Directorate in DG Research with the request for follow-up.

(Beatrix Lehmann, Secretariat Zoran Stancic, Deputy Director-General, Scientific advances, European Commission, DG Research, European Union, Brussels, Belgium)





Thanks most useful, let me go thru the dossier and revert. Thanks for the heads up. As I venture into this environment, could Indus Corporation take the initiative to invite and sponsor me to various events taking place that would allow me to learn more and network amongst stakeholders? Does my Green initiative appeal to Indus Corporation and can we look forward to further engagement in discussions that will result in the first Green School in East Africa?

(Bill Omamo Jnr, International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC Nairobi, Kenya)





Thanks, I have passed this on to colleagues at USAID who specialize in education, economic growth, environment, democracy and governance, health, and humanitarian assistance, Barney

(Barney Popkin, ME/TS, Environmental Protection, Asia and Near East, US Aid, Washington, USA)





Thank you for sending me the Global Resources Analysis 2008. I am intersted working with you or giving my assistance in whatever way possible. Just make the suggestions and consider it done.

(Yinka Suleiman, Nigerian National Coordinator, 21st Century African Youth Movement, Nigeria)





Thank you very much for your email.

(Ing. David Spacek, Department of Public Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Czech Republic)





Thank you very much for sending me this report. I am very interested in the subject, so I will surely read it.

(Angeline de Groote, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium)





Thank you for sharing an interesting and useful document. Looking forward to get such documents in future also.

(Bimal, Enabling State Programme, Kiran Bhawan, Sanepa, Lalitpur, Nepal)





Thank You very much for this report. Since, I am vorking in higher education area, I ll send this report to all professors at my university, so that they can discus it with sudents comment together.

(Alim Abazovic, Univerzitet "Džemal Bijedic" Mostar, Kancelarija za osiguranje kvaliteta, USRC "Midhat Hujdur - Hujka", Univerzitet "Džemal Bijediv" u Mostaru, Rektorat, unmo.ba)





Thanks for the Global Resources Analysis. I will et time to read through.Please am making a request. If you know where I can get scholarship for my Masters degree, please assist me. I'm desperately looking for sponsorship to do Masters in Public Health in Australia Wollongong University. I will appreciate any information which can lead me to this.

(Beatrice Muraguri, Health Information Officer, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya)





Thank you very much for sending me the copy of manuscript Global Resources Analysis. I will read carefully and I will send you my comments as soon as possible. Seen to me that the document has important facts that are very important to divulge to all the people.

(Dr. Aarón Sánchez Juárez, Centro de Investigación en Energía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)





Thank you for sending me this very interesting, very in-depth and timely analysis. I have some reading to do now!

(Diane Buccheri, Publisher, OCEAN Magazine)





Thanks very much.

(Silvia Pasti, Chief Child Protection Section, UNICEF, Southern Sudan Support Center, Nairobi, Kenya)





Mauritania today became the last 3 years oil producing country. Oil infrastructure and rail now fills the list of national development projects. IT remains that foreign investors are slow to grasp an opportunity to invest in a country where political stability reflects a favorable climate. Our department is renowned for its work in the field and its commitment functional offers its facilitation services to come invest in Mauritania in such circumstances

(Ahmed Ould Bessid, Director Office, Research, ENNOUR Consulting, Nouakchott, Mauritania)





Thank you for many emails. They helped a lot of my thinking. I have drafted a proposal for our internal use where I propose to start a project with a start workshop. This is a new project and we have to think about the financial resources if there is any left. We will invite you and your colleague into that seminar. When it will take place is open at the moment.

(Timo Kauppinen, EuroFound, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, European Commission)





It is a big document you are working on writing, and a very important topic.

(Dr. Glen Wurden, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences, National Security Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory -LANL-, previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy -DOE- national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), located in Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA)





Thank you for sharing with us a copy of the “Global Resources Analysis” I went through the document and it has a lot of interesting an valuable information, and also combines information on the current status but also ways to manage the a post PeakOil scenario. On the parts of the document you address environment, you place much more emphasis on climate change; biodiversity loss is the “other” and not much acknowledged issue we face and is should be noted that this is not only about loosing fauna and flora, but it is about the alteration of ecosystems and their services, and the direct relation with basic human wellbeing (this before thinking of prosperity). Extensive work on this has been done with the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment http://www.millenniumassessment.org, and through the convention on biological diversity www.cbd.int you may find this information interesting for your research. I enjoyed also the closing paragraph of your document. Thanks again and good luck on your endeavors.

(Samuel Sangüeza Pardo, Director Ejecutivo, Fondo Ambiental Nacional, fan.org.ec, Atahualpa, Edificio Financiero Amazonas, Quito, Ecuador)





Thank you for the draft document, which I will read. Scanning it briefly plus your e-mail is interesting. Please in return visit our website at www.intrean.org. Where you will find information on our activities. Perhaps we could discuss how our two organizations might best cooperate. Our main areas of activity in relation to resources are: Low carbon content construction panels/carbon offsetting globally and waste to energy in Ukraine and planned for Russia. Thanks for your swift response. Let us try to decide upon some common and workable plan. My background is that I am by education and profession from 25 years ago an economist. (Masters Degree Edinburgh 1984). I have worked for many years as a stockbroker and IFA in London, where I still am based and am regulated by the FSA. I have worked in Russia for 15 years and Ukraine for 3 years including work with UNECE, EU, several Russian and Ukrainian government bodies. I previously was an adviser to the Gazprom captive insurance company ‘Sogaz’. My current interests are: pan-European financial services under MiFID, environmentally sustainable land use (agricultural and housing)/waste to energy/biofuels/biomass/agricultural land as carbon sink, PPP infrastructure in CIS, beginning mainly with transport in Russia and Ukraine where I am still advising the governments, alternative socio-economic models.

(Douglas JP Prentice, Euro Capital Group, London, UK)





Thanks for reply and great interest into the topic. Why I was asking your advise was that at the moment we are drafting a four year programme for the Foundation and would like to start some future oriented projects. After having decided the topic the EuroFound will launch an open competition in the Official Journal of the EU and we hope that all interested would participate in the tender process. So, if you have any good ideas or topics we could think about including them into our programme and later launch tenders. I would like to ask your help in making a future oriented research project, foresight project, for the European Foundation on covering living conditions, working conditions, industrial relations and structural change in Europe. What would be your proposal? What should be analysed taking into account your book.

(Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, eurofound.europa.eu)





Thanks for the letter. I'm considered somewhat of a market visionary myself. Electronics will solve the energy problems very rapidly. Harnessing wind and sun is really no big deal in comparison to creating a global wireless network or putting a team of five on the moon. The obstacles to getting rid of fossil fuels are all manmade. So don't worry, be happy. Also, review the work of Tesla, when you get some time.

(Dennis M. Zogbi, CEO and Founder Paumanok Publications, paumanokgroup.com, Cary, NC, USA)





Thanks. It is a good report in a timely manner.

(Dr. Sang H. Choi, Senior Scientist, NASA, Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA)





One thing I did notice was that the writing style was similar to the work of Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale who wrote "Funky Business" amongst other books. It is a writing style I admire and find easy to read, so I would hope to review your paper in the coming weeks.

(Neil Huggan, Royal Town Planning Institute, The Highland Council, Scotland, UK)





Thank you for the message. Its very important document and I will resend it to all interested people, possible they will contact you directly if they are interested on it. It’s very important to understand the situation from the critical point of view taking into account the situation in the world and disasters happening. Especially the situation in Tajikistan is difficult because of poverty and disaster situation where government asked for international help and UN announced flash appeal if you know http://www.untj.org/?c=7&id=238. Anyway hope the situation will change for the better. Thank you once more for the information and further I would be interested to receive such kind of information,

(Umida Tulieva, Prog. Officer, Act Central Asia, NGO, Dushanbe, Tajikistan)





Thank you for your excellent report. It is easy to read and shocks readers with its visions. I will forward it to my colleagues.

(Timo Kauppinen, eurofound.europa.eu)





Na een snelle scan van je brief en het rapport ben ik zeer onder de indruk. Tegelijkertijd ben ik over de energievoorziening op langere termijn minder bezorgd (zie bijlage). Over de voedselvoorziening wel. Ik mis in die snelle scan het opraken van fosfaat. In de bijlage vind je ook een verwijzing naar het tweede deel van de Tweede Duurzaamheidsverkenning van het MNP vorig jaar met een afbeelding van het toekomstig landbouwareaal dat Rusland ook als winnaar aanwijst.

(Prof. Dr. Ing. Taeke de Jong, Technical Ecology and Methodology, Technological University Delft, Holland)





Thank you for sending the pre-publication report. I would like to offer to streamline the text and correct the English so that your report has maximum impact. I am a former newspaper and magazine writer and editor and currently a communications employee for a worldwide non-profit organization. If this proposal interests you, I'd be happy to provide a quotation.

(Monte Mace, Lawrence, Kansas, USA)





Thank you very much for sharing the report with me which I find it useful....

(Navy Kann, World Food Programme, UN Agency, Libanon)





Many thanks. It really helpful. Congratulation on such a comprehensive report

(Mansoor Raza, Coordinator Disaster Response, cwspa.org.pk, Pakistan)





Thanks for the pre-published copy of Global Resources Analysis 2008. I'm great full for the information you send to me.

(Geoffrey Leaparteleg, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, CGIAR, Worldbank, Washington, USA)





Ik zal het met plezier lezen.

(Egon Vorfeld, IWM Independent Wealth Management S.A., Geneva, Swiss)





I will read your report soon and with great interest and trepidation. I have just participated at an UN conference on food and agrofuel issues, and facts on the ground are darker than my direst predictions.

(Prof. Tadeusz W. Patzek, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA)





This is much appreciated. Warm regards.

(Prof. Nicholas Biekpe, Professor in Development Finance and Econometrics, University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa)





Thank you very much for the GRA report. Will use it extensively and share it with my colleagues and friends. Will be in touch once.

(Prof. Kailash Chandra Malhotra, Indian Acedemy of Sciences, Ecology and Applied Anthropology, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkotta, Uttar Pradesh, India)





Thanks for sending the article. Growing food near cities will become a reality, which I expected since last four years. Fresh food with high water content cannot be transported for long distances with high energy costs. Please keep in touch.

(Bhat, ARU Leading Edge Pvt. Ltd., taru.org)





Thanks for this literature. Please be assured that I would attempt to go through at my pace.

(Ukpong Udeme, Sharon Consultative & Research Management, Nigeria)





Your draft report has much useful information.

(William Bailey, Executive Director, Oakton, VA, USA)





Though I have not completely gone through this report, I am confident to say thanks for sharing, from sections I have read its not only interesting but informative.

(Edson Mugore, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia)





Interesting report. I have not yet had time digest the report but it seems like a most thorough analysis of the massive problem facing society. Even from a cursory examination I suspect that I can not add to the conclusion, but will hope to comment later.

(Lyn Bates, Managing Director, AJAX Equipment, Bolton, United Kingdom)





Thank you.

(Cathy Dean, Director, Save the Rhino International, London, United Kingdom)





Glad to get this. I sent to some key leaders in the largest professional organization in the world (IEEE) that works on the technical parts of power and energy, earth observation, EE, electronics and more. Can you email me hi resolution copies of the graphs (and photos if you have them)? I will use to effect and send along.

(Paul E. Gartz, President IEEE Systems Council 2008-09, Past President IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society 2004-05, Boeing Technical Fellowship, 787 Goldcare Systems-of-Systems Architect, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle, WA, USA)





Thanks for the Global Resource Analysis 2008 report. It will go a long way to inform me and other analysts, policy makers and lecturers in energy and related issues.

(John Mutua, Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, KIPPRA, Kenya)





Could I please get a copy of the Global Ressource Analysis, Vol.III thanks

(Prof. Dr. Klaus Heinloth vom Physikalischen Institut der Universität Bonn, Germany)





We have well received copy of Global Ressources Analysis Report. Many thanks and best regards.

(Mohammed Digua, Fair Insurance & Reinsurance Brokers, Maroc)





Thanks for the all-encompassing report. It is very well made.

(Nitin Phansalkar, Coordinator, Desertec, India)





Bedankt voor de toegestuurde informatie.

(Ad Koppejan, CDA, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland)





Hiermee bevestig ik u de ontvangst van onderstaande e-mail. Gezien de inhoud heb ik deze onder de aandacht gebracht van mijn fractiegenoot Halbe Zijlstra. Hopende u hiermede van dienst te zijn geweest.

(Mark Rutte, VDD, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland)





Thank you for sending this message and the report to Ms. Verdonk. We always appreciate useful information on current events.

(Mels de Zeeuw, Group Verdonk, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland)





Dankjewel, 'k stuur dit ook door naar onze beleidsmedewerker Economische Zaken!

(Janie de Jong, secr. SGP, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland)





Your proposal about making documentary about Peak oil looks interesting. One suggestion for you, its better to make documentary not like making a presentation for high level company. Make it simple and understandable, with real people not with statistic but with real situation in daily life.

(Asmayani Kusrini, Rumah Film, Indonesia)





Thank you very much for your email. I'm definitely aware of peak oil and have been nearly for the past decade. In fact, Michelle Coomber, my lovely director and I have an idea for such a film. But I am curious as to how you received my contact and was wondering what you were thinking in terms of contribution and participation from both yourselves and Mortal Coil Media? As you likely know, documentaries are quite difficult to finance because the industry is so competitive. The idea that we have for our film is one that we haven't been able to start because it takes place on 3 continents and thus will take a fair amount of financial resources to get things going... We have a few plans that break things down, but without even initial financing to be honest, there are limitations. I looked at your website and am impressed by your activities. I look forward to hearing why you'd like to make a documentary on peak oil. Any suggestions that you have are most welcome.

(Dana Wilson, film producer, Mortal Coil Media, Czech Republic)





Thanks for contacting me and sending me the interesting report. Of course the PeakOil and the change of the energy sources is one of the most important problems humanity have to face nowadays (together with climate changes and poverty...). I completely agree with the idea of making some kind of audiovisual work with it, documentary or featureded film. I just I don't understand very well what do you expect from me. If you're looking for economical sources you're obvsiously not talking with the right person, if you're looking for ideas or developping a project this might be possible. There thousands of ways to make a film about one tema, I think you've the tema very clear for the film, but there many diferent ways to develop it, and is on this developing of the tema, thinking in visual and auditive terms and of course the ideas and feelings that are behind the images and sounds, where the film gets his own personality, where the film starts being itself in a way or another. So basically the quality and depth of the film will start being present in it when you will start developping it. Right now all the posibilities are open I think.... It's amazing how many diferent titles you were thinking on, honestly I think the title of the film will come to it alone when the film will be developped... If there is anything I can do to help you, let me know.

(Guillermo Carreras-Candi, Filmer, Barcelona, Spain)





Thank you for your email. And thanks for sending the report. I agree completely that Peak Oil is a very important issue. We have brought this up on several occasions in our cinema and organised discussions to rise the awareness of the problem. We have screened films like End of Suburbia, Peak Oil - Imposed by Nature and Crude Impact. And yes, I definitely support any attempt to increase awareness about this issue, and I agree that film is a powerful medium. But how do you propose that I/we (Oslo Dokumentarkino / Oslodocs.com) can contribute to this initiative?

(Ketil Magnussen, Oslo Dokumentarkino, Norway)





I'm really interested in this project .... Let's talk !!

(Cedric)





Thanks.

(Justin Pemberton, Producer-Director, The TV Set Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand)





Huge thanks for sending this, it's VERY interesting!

(Kim Chandler, Features Editor XM Magazine, Amsterdam, Holland)





Dank voor de toezending. Ik zal uw publicatie lezen.

(Sadet Karabulut, Socialist Party, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland)





Looks interesting will get back to you shortly after I ve looked at what you are asking me to look at

(Rehad Desai, Southern Africa Communications for Development, SACOD, South Africa)





Thanks for your e-mail. The topic of this documentary is indeed interesting, and has crossed my mind a number of times.

(Susannah Burnette, American Filmmaker, Utrecht, Holland)





Thank you for the report.

(Geert Schaap, SWECO, Nivelles, Belgium)





Met jou maak ik mij grote zorgen over de macro-economische effecten van doorgaande stijging van energie en grondstoffenprijzen. Ons land zal daaraan bijvoorbeeld energiepolitiek en fiscale consequenties moeten verbinden.

(Johan Remkes, VVD, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland)





I thank you for this interesting report and I kindly ask to keep me informed about future initiatives.

(Paolo Fracas, Business Development Manager, Fuel Cell Materials, Saati Group, Italy)





Thanks a lot for this very interesting Report!

(Dr. Janis Kleperis, Head of Hydrogen and Gas Sensors Laboratory, Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia)





Hartelijk bedankt voor het toesturen.

(Attje Kuiken, PvdA, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland)





Thank you very much for report and for free posibility to circulate it. I am an manager for HYDROGEN cluster in Czech republik. On 10 of April our Technical University will take hold the workshop on " Hydrogen Technologies, Fuell Cells and Applications". Surelly I use some information from your report.

(Mrs. Miluše Váchová, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)





Thank you. I’ll look it over.

(Dan Bolton, Editor-in-chief, Natural Food Network, San Francisco, CA, USA)





It is indeed important and let me know how we can co operate.

(Shaul)





Ik stuur deze door aan onze woordvoeder energie: Halbe Zijlstra.

(Gessica Bearzatto MSc. BA., Medewerker Charlie B. Aptroot, VVD-fractie Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal, The Haque, Holland)





I would like thank you for your email. Even though I was busy editing a film I took a look at your references and found them interesting. I will be glad to cooperate with you on this project. As a Middle Eastern citizen whose life is dependent on the oil this project is of great priority to me and I would do whatever it takes to make it happen. The only thing that is unclear to me is the procedure of making it and where I will be standing in creating this film. Please inform me of the process of making this film.

(Ramtin Lafaipour)





Sounds great. I'll be on line sporadically over the next week as we are filming in Slovakia until the beginning of April, so if you don't hear from me right away, I'll get back to you asap. Good luck with the LOIs.

(Dana Wilson, Film Producer, Canada)





I agree with you peak oil and food shortages or both excellent subjects for a documentary/feature film. I am very interested in economics and been following the demise of the US$ for sometime. We are indeed going to be going through monumental changes regarding energy and food production in the not too distant future. Thank you for sharing your work it is an impressive and through analysis of the problems and solutions. I will be traveling to Amsterdam March 25th returning to the US on April 2nd, would it be possible to connect when I am in the Netherlands?

(Louise Hogarth, director/producer, Dream Out Loud ilms, Los Angeles, CA, USA)





I am interested. But how should we work together on such a documentary? Should we make an appointment to speak about it?

(Goran Baba Ali, journalist, Kurdistan/Iraq/Holland)





Hartelijk dank voor uw mail aan Jan Marijnissen. Hij vroeg mij deze te beantwoorden. Dank dat u de SP Tweede Kamerfractie hiervan op de hoogte heeft gesteld. Uw informatie is wellicht bruikbaar in Kamerdebatten.

(Fetse Visser, medewerker SP Tweede Kamerfractie, namens Jan Marijnissen, House of Representatives, Parliament, Holland)





Bedankt! Mooi stuk werk.

(Willem Middelkoop, Economic Analyst, Host RTLZ Business TV Channel, Holland)





Mijn dank voor het toezenden van de interessante informatie over de energie-situatie in de wereld. U zult het mij hopelijk niet kwalijk nemen dat ik de ruim honderd pagina's niet zal lezen. Dat laat ik aan meer deskundigen in die materie over. Ik ben mij echter zeer bewust van de gevaren van een toenemende schaarste aan energie-dragers in de wereld. Vooral gelegen in de sfeer van de zeggenschap daar over. En de consequenties die dat in de vorm van uitbreken van conflicten en oorlogen zal hebben. Nog tijdens mijn senatorschap raakte ik betrokken bij een stichting die tot doel had vredeseducatie in het onderwijs te bevorderen. Inmiddels ben ik voorzitter van Stichting VredesWetenschappen (www.stichtingvredeswetenschappen.nl). Een stichting die zich als doel heeft gesteld via de wetenschap voorwaarden voor vrede te analyseren. De stichting beheert inmiddels 2 bijzondere leerstoelen, een economische aan het Institute of Social Studies in Den Haag en een juridische.aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Professor Mansoob S. Murshed bezet de economische leerstoel aan het ISS in Den Haag. Het bijgaande artikel van zijn hand raakt aan de door u geschetste problematiek. Misschien vindt u het interessant. Ik heb er geen idee van met welke groeperingen in de maatschappij uw organisatie in contact staat. Ik weet dan ook niet of ik uw informatie aan Mansoob Murshed toe zal sturen. Ik weet niet of hij er al van op de hoogte is. U veel succes toewensend met uw werk op dit gebied.

(Drs. Cobi Schoondergang-Horikx, Emiritus Senate Member Groen Links, Senate, Holland)





Dat is goed, maar ik denk wel dat er draagvlak te vinden is. Er moet wel snel actie worden ondernomen want ik weet toevallig dat er meerdere docu makers met olie bezig zijn. Geweldig onderwerp. Ik hoor graag van je.

(Romy Balvers, filmmaker, Amsterdam, Holland)





I have been reading the GLOBAL RESOURCES ANALYSIS 2008 draft version and see that Volume III will have details of the finance model. I am currently working with 2 private commercial clients who are seeking additional co-finance or funding for PV power plants in Bulgaria and this document will be of great assistance to me in developing the plants. My specific requirements is the identification of potential financing sources for the projects. If you can please send me volume 3 and any additional information concerning the identification of potential financiers for such projects I would be most grateful.

(Adrian Robinson, Varna, Bulgaria)





Thank you very much for the material you was sent to me. This material very useful with me for my research of energy resource in the world and special in Vietnam. It would be wonderful if I can continue receive the volume II and other new research from your side. Please let's me know if I can do anything to get those materials. Thank you again and wish you all the best !

(Ngo Nhien, Head of Development Technology, National Centre for Technological Progress in Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam)





Much to late I´d like to thank you for the report, it´s great. I hope we stay in touch!

(Meinrad Höfferer, Teamleiter Wirtschaftskammer Kärnten, Außenwirtschaft und EU, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Vienna, Austria)





Heel goed en breed overzicht! Enkele opmerkingen: Zo her en der vind ik het wat kort door de bocht, maar eigenlijk is dat niet erg: het gaat er vooral om mensen aan het denken te zetten. Wetenschappers die te genuanceerd zijn en daardoor de boodschap niet kunnen overbrengen zijn er al genoeg! Met name de eerste helft van het energy hoofdstuk vind ik wat somber en cynisch, o.a. t.a.v. geopolitical issues. De stukken over nieuwe oplossingsrichtingen en hoe gemikt moet worden op nieuwe infrastructuur (vooral je verhalen over decentralisatie en beperking transport etc. spreken mij meer aan. Bij energy mis ik een stukje over CCS (carbon capture & storage): daar wordt veel over gepraat als “de ultieme oplossing” voor het klimaat probleem. Daarbij vergeet men dat dit qua peak oil geen effect heeft. Met name voor kolencentrales is dit wel een erg belangrijk thema, want bij de benutting van komen is de emissie van CO2 (en andere rotzooi) veel groter dan bij gascentrales. Ook mis ik een stukje over Gas/coal/biomass-to-liquid. Daar wordt erg veel aan gedaan en kan in het komend decennium een rol van betekenis spelen (echter ook alleen om het plateau van Hubbert’s peak wat te verlengen; m.u.v. biomass-to-liquid, maar ik denk niet dat dat voor meer dan een paar procent een rol speelt. Overigens zou het goed zijn ook te benadrukken dat voor electriciteitsproductie veel meer opties aan alternatieve energie beschikbaar zijn dan voor mobiliteitsenergie. Voor de huidige wijze van vervoer zijn nu eenmaal vloeibare brandstoffen nodig (gaat ook 70% van de aardolie naar toe). Het aansluiten van auto’s op het electriciteitsnet is qua experiment en spielerei misschien leuk, maar als je dat met 8 miljoen auto’s plus vrachtwagens doet in Nederland kan 10 het electriciteitsnet dat niet aan en 2) moet de overheid iets bedenken op het heffen van accijns op electriciteit o.i.d. om de weggevallen inkomsten op te vangen. Vaak hoor je van de milieubeweging dat je alles met windmolens op kan lossen “weer zoveel duizend huishoudens van energie voorzien”). Hoewel alle beetjes helpen; dat ben ik wel met jou eens, vind ik dat toch een beetje boerenbedrog, want daar zit het probleem eigenlijk helemaal niet (electriciteit wordt normaliter niet uit olie gemaakt. Transport, en dus vloeibare energiedragers, is een veel belangrijker issue. Je geeft aan dat in de toekomst alleen nog electronen en bits getransporteerd worden. Ik mis ook een opmerking over het energieverbruik van het internet in dat verband. Zoals het web nu groeit kan dat wel eens de grootste energieverbruiker van de planeet gaan worden. Waar zitten daar de “grenzen aan de groei”? De laatste bladzijden van de sources hebben een hoog science fiction gehalte, maar ook dat is niet erg: het prikkelt de gedachten. Nogmaals: een knap stuk werk!

(Prof. Hans Derksen, Radbout University Nijmegen, Holland)





After receiving the first version of GRA Volume 1, I will appreciate receiving the second volume. Although, generally oil producer countries are not much concern about the increasing the price of oil on the global market. But, the price of gasoline is rising, the rising price will be the cause that the price of other items will increase. Thank you.

(Dr. Ali Sattari, Radiopharmacist, Head of QC Group, Cyclotron and Nuclear Medicine Department, Karaj, Iran)





Please send an updated report if possible.

(John Perkins, Australia)





I did not say thank you then. But I am sure I can still say thank you now - for sending me this draft. It has proved to be very valuable - itis just on target!

(Dr. Pauline Dube, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana)





Please a subscription.

(Andrey Ivanov, UNDP, European CIS, Human Development Policy Advisor, UNDP, Europe and the CIS, Bratislava Regional Centre, Bratislava, Slovak Republic)





Thanks. Can you send me an update (final version) of this document?

(Mbangiseni P. Nepfumbada, Pr. Sci. Nat., Chief Director: Water Resources Information Management, Chair: South African National Committee for UNESCO IHP, Department of Water Affairs & Forestry, Pretoria, South Africa)





Uit wat ik er globaal van gezien heb maak ik op dat u waarschuwt voor onderschatting van de gevolgen van hoge energieprijzen en dat het tegelijkertijd optreden van crises op meerdere terreinen wijst op onderliggende crisis in ons westers economisch-/maatschappijmodel. Als dat inderdaad zo is ben ik het met u eens. In mijn visie beleven we het einde van de industriele tijd en de uitgangspunten waarop die was gebaseerd. Veel van wat groot en sterk was in de 20e eeuw is/komt nu in verval. De machthebbers in politiek en bedrijfsleven zullen trachten met oude recepten de oude orde nog enige tijd gaande te houden. Dat zal niet erg lukken en voor veel verwarring en paniek zorgen, hetgeen in feite in de VS al aan het gebeuren is. Een nieuwe tijd gebaseerd op nieuwe uitgangspunten staat op doorbreken. Die tijd zal gebaseerd zijn op organische principes, een andere balans tussen competitie en samenwerking (om samen op deze planeet te kunnen overleven), technologieen die kleinschaligheid faciliteren, economische processen die veel meer passen in het cyclisch karakter van de natuur en de kosmos (m.a.w. niet interen op voorraden, maar oogsten uit de stroom), een weer meer gelocaliseerde/geregionaliseerde economie. Als dit ongeveer de lijn is van uw betoog, dan zit u op de goede lijn.

(Herman Wijffels, Director, World Bank, Washington, USA)





Thank you so much for the Global Resources Analysis you sent in April. It is hugely interesting and very well written, and I have shared it with collegues. I am not at all sure how I got to be on your mailing list??? But would loved to receive also Vol II and III described below. I very much share your sentiments and guess I have done so a whole lifetime. It is good to see that people are finally waking up - rising energy costs should speed that up too!! Sorry it took so long to acknowledge receipt of this report, but please keep up the good efforts. We need reports like this.

(Anne Bruntse, Local Coordinator, BioVision office, biovision.ch, ICIPE, Nairobi, Kenya)





Please send me a copy of Volume 2. Best regards.

(Jorge Mario Salazar, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica)





Honneur vous demander de bien vouloir me sosucrire un abonnement en version numérique le volume I, intitulé : The Global Resources Analysis / Volume I / Situation 2008.

(Henri-Claude Enoumba, Eng., Ph.D, Head of Planning & Studies Division, Niger Basin Authority, Niamey, Niger)





I’d like to see a wakeup call like this published.

(Dan DePriest, theliterati.net, USA)





Want a copy of volume 2 please.

(Dr. Tukur Malami, Ministery of Health, Nigeria)





Thank you for this interesting portfoglio of ideas! Currently, the NorthRhine Pallatinate Chamber of Commerce is conducting an informal series of dedicated workshops the goal of which - curriously enough - is in line with the scopes of Indus. (www.ihk-koeln.de). Thank you for the forwarding to Prof. Derksen. I will be happy to circulate your GRA. You are right in the assumtion that there will never be a european energy policy for the simple reason that there allready is one. A debate I am reluctant to continue.

(Peter Olessak, North Rhine Pallatinate Chamber of Commerce, Germany)





I principally agree with outlined notes and conclusions. After all all people would like to have a life level similar tro that in US, Norway or Switzterland. What does it mean? - More energy . And WORLD population growTH! I will look the Volume 1 next week. more in detail.

(Vladimir Sladek, Nuclear Regulatory Authority of the Slovak Republic, Bratislava, Slovak Republic)





Dank voor uw aanvullende mails. Er moet heel wat denkwerk zijn gaan zitten, niet alleen in de GRA, maar vooral ook in het ontwikkelen van modellen voor het reageren op de uitdagingen die de GRA signaliseert. Heel creatief en indrukwekkend. Zoals ik eerder al meldde kan ik mij in heel veel ervan volledig vinden. Ook het toepassen van de Raiffeisen-formule op deze situatie spreekt me aan. Bij een economie die zich in veel opzichten (opnieuw) van onderop moet opbouwen, passen ook financieringsmodellen die participatief zijn en op dat niveau werken. Dat gezegd zijnde moet ik wel melden dat de WB op dit moment niet de geschikte plek is om daarmee aan de slag te gaan. De belangrijkste, maar niet enige reden is gelegen in het feit dat de belangrijkste aandeelhouders van de bank (w.o. ook NL) alles in het werk stellen om te verhinderen dat de WB concurrentie aandoet aan de private sector, dat is het bestaande private bankwezen. Wat dat betreft is het hier soms wel frustrerend om steeds weer te zien hoe belangen in ontwikkelde landen die van ontwikkelingslanden in de weg zitten. Mijn oprechte inschatting is dat de tijd hier niet rijp is om dit soort ventures in WB-verband te starten, zo dat al ooit het geval zou kunnen worden. Bij de huidige missie en het huidige governancebestel acht ik het uitgesloten. Ik blijf graag op de hoogte van de verdere ontwikkeling van uw werk.

(Herman Wijffels, Director, World Bank, Washington, USA)





Me and my colleague, professor Andrew Akhremenko (chair of public policy, philosophic faculty, Moscow State University) have become acquainted attentively with your informative letter and materials attached. Our field is mathematical and statistical models of intergovernmental relations and inner politics. We have appreciated highly your systematization of the global-trend processes. To say some words in addition to your brilliant analysis, we see one other basic idea of such survey. It is to forecast the development of those processes in interrelations with each other. In our studies we came to the conclusion that taking into consideration those cross-relative connections was essential. So we have worked out some quantitative approaches to manage with this problem. We are truly interested in joining our efforts to deal with this issue. Our further correspondence (we sincerely hope it will follow) please address to Andrew Akhremenko.

(Pavel Alexandrov, doctor in physics and mathematics, professor, foreign policy faculty in Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)





I realised that I never thanked you for the report. Thank you for the follow up and valuable information.

(Cynthia H. Hansen, Director of Management Consultancy, Action Planning, Consultants to the Not-For-Profit Sector, Sutton, Surrey, UK)





Thank you for so quick answer and interesting additional facts in your letter. I've got Volume I from my friend some days ago and almost studied it all. There are a lot of interesting facts, deep insights into the nearest future, it is very usefull for me as a journalist and editor. I'm editor-in-chief of monthly magazine Fortuna Privata, it's young enough magazine, only two years published, oriented to business peoples and to managers, so I think problems You analyse are very actual and interesting to them. Before I was editor-in-chief of weekly newsmagazine Veidas for seven years. That's about me, I would be very thankfull if You would send, if possible, Your newest researches in this energy field. I've seen, that You prepared Volume II "Action Plan 2008" in April - or I am wrong? If You have it, can You be so kind and send this Volume to me?

(Liudvikas Gadeikis, Vilnius)





Thank you.

(A. F. Alhajji, PhD., Associate Professor, College of Business Administration, onu.edu, Ohio Northern University, Ohio, USA)





Thank you very much for your sending, it is a very interesing work very related to all the issues about environment and society I am researching about in relation to Argentina, the South and its relation to the North. Is there any possibility to get the other volumes you have about these issues? I am a sociological scientific researcher and also the president of a NGO devoted to the environment. Looking forward to receiving your comments,

(Enrique del Acebo Ibáñez Ph.D., Argentina)





The Global Resources Analysis | Volume I |Situation 2008. Honneur vous demander de bien vouloir me sosucrire un abonnement en version numérique le volume I, intitulé : The Global Resources Analysis /Volume I/Situation 2008.

(Henri-Claude ENOUMBA, PhD, Ing., Chef Division des Etudes & de la Planification, Autorité du Bassin du Niger (ABN), Niamey, Niger)





Thank you. Very interesting analysis.

(Festus Ilako, African Medical and Research Foundation, Kenya)





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(Vasile PUSCAS, MP, Parliament of ROMANIA, Committee for European Affairs, Bucharest, Romania)





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Thanks a lot for your mail with the attachment. I have ciruclated the same to many. Look forward to receive such reports from time to time. Thanks once again.

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(Charlie Vartanian, P.E., Southern California Edison Distributed Energy Resources, CA, USA)





Please send me a copy of the above referenced Volume II, Action Plan 2008.

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Please send me a copy of The Global Resources Analysis | Volume II | Action Plan 2008. Thank you. Thanks ever so much for sending your (pre-publishing) copy of Global Resources Analysis. It is without a doubt the most compelling analysis of the future I have seen to date! I write a piece for our local paper in Exuma - "Exuma Breeze" - and, have included many excerpts from your report. I have also forwarded it to some government leaders here and others. I dare say, your report is so close to the realities that we are experiencing now and seemingly will - more so in the future. I was out of town for awhile and did not fully read your report right away. Now that I have, please send me the completed report along with all the others from your company. I really appreciate you sending me the one and hopefully the others. I have requested the reports from the sites in your report, but have not received any of them. If you know or hear of any company that would like to experiment in any of the renewable energy - particularly in solar, wind and tidal. Please refer me to them. Farmers Cay in the Exuma Cays is a perfect community of seventy five people, with two Cut to Exuma Sound with currents of over three knots, and of course we have the sun for most of the year and the wind too. I hope to see you in Farmers Cay soon. I requested all of the below: The Global Resources Analysis | Volume I | Situation 2008 is maintained/improved daily. Get an one time actual copy on induscorp.nl/resources or by sending an email to volume1@induscorp.nl and you’ll got the latest version the next day in your mailbox. The Global Resources Analysis | Volume I | Situation 2008 is maintained/improved daily. Get a subscription on the monthly improved version by sending an email to subscriptions@induscorp.nl and you’ll got it each month automatically in your mailbox. The Global Resources Analysis | Volume II | Action Plan 2008 will be published end of April 2008. Get a copy of the Global Resources Analysis | Volume II | by sending an email to volume2@induscorp.nl and you’ll got the latest version the next day in your mailbox. The Global Resources Analysis | Volume III | Finance Model 2008 will be published end of June 2008. Get a copy of the Global Resources Analysis | Volume III | by sending an email to volume3@induscorp.nl and you’ll got the latest version the next day in your mailbox.

(Terry L. Bain, Ocean Cabin, Farmers Cay, Exuma Cays, The Bahamas)





Thank you very much for your Analysis and address for more high res copy on the web. It would be interesting to read this document.

(Maria Sulanova, Ústav informácií a prognóz školstva, Slovak Republic)





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(Marshall Goldsmith, Marshall Goldsmith Library, USA)





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(Dr. Alaster Samkange, Morocco)





Thanks fascinating reading.

(John Budd, Regional Communication Officer, UNICEF, CEE CIS Region, unicef.org)





After reading The Global Resources Analysis | Volume I | Situation 2008 I would also be interested in reading the Volume III if possible. Thank you in advance.

(Sandra Oisalu, MTÜ Balti Keskkonnafoorum/Baltic Environmental Forum Estonia, bef.ee, Tallinn, Estonia)





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Thank you so much. The Global Resources Analysis 2008 is a valuable and comprenhensible tool for decision making and a better understanding of the interwined factors in the situation as a whole.

(Roberto Escalante, Viceminister of the Environment and Natural Resources, San Salvador, El Salvador)





We will read the Analysis.

(Antonia Koperdanova, Program manager, Central European Foundation, Bratislava, Slovak Republic)





Thank You.

(Vjacheslav Vasin, Latvia)





Thanks very much for your analysis of to-day's global situation. Your work is very detailed with an experienced look in the far future, a look politicians are not able to take due to their short sighted habit dictated by their day-to-day politics. I got a thourough look at the analysis and are adding some remarks in the appendix to this letter. Remarks on the Draft Global Resources Analysis 2008 – 05 – 18. In your analysis I miss the role of research in technology and especially the role of human resources in the research and development (R&D). You are elaborating the role of the research in many chapters: Policies – Research, in Solutions – Technologies and in Conclusions – Embrace technology. But of the main importance are the researchers in the economy, especially in industrial R&D sectors. The growth of solutions in energy sectors depends exclusively on their strength, their number per 1 million of inhabitants. In my research of technological results in European countries I found strong relationship betweeen the number of researchers in industry and the added value per employee in the economy, what means on the GDP per one inhabitant, as well as also on the number of patents registered in EPO, on the share of high technology products in total export and on the share of innovative enterprises in the whole number of enterprises; wherin each od these relations can be expressed by a regression formula. I include in the following page as an example the diagram showing the relation of the added value per employee dependant on the number of researchers in industry in European countries, expressed by the shown regression formula. The same correlations were found also in all other factors from the field of innovation and R&D. Therefore all solutions of difficult problems in the present very severe energy and food situation in the global world as shown by your admonishing analysis with all the obviousness depend exclusively on innovations, what means on the innovativness of researchers, on their critical mass and – last but not least - their education. Therefore the number of graduated in tertiary education in the fields of technology and natural sciences is so important and decisive for the future. Their share in the total number of graduated is generally too small, therefore the countries with the highest share of graduates in technology hold the first places in competitiveness scoreboards of IMD, WEF etc: with Finland, Sweden and Denmark on the first places. Their solutions of energy problems are therefore also on the top. The production of the skilled human resources in the field of research and innovation should be therefore specially elaborated in your analysis to give goals to governments as the most important field of their efforts. Only innovation in industry can solve the growing problems in the future of the mankind. And we do know very well who carries the main portion of this burden. Figure 1: Dependancy of the added value per employee in Eur on the number of researchers in industry per 1 million of inhabitants – AV = added value. (Source: M. Kos: Technology Foresight in Slovenia, Institute for Economic Research, Ljubljana, 2008).

(Dr. Marko Kos, Academic and Research Network of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia)





First of all, Sorry for the delay in sending you a feedback. I was on a assignment in Africa and came back just some days ago. Thank you for sending me a copy of the Global resource Analysis 2008. I'm delighted at having the opportunity to be kept abreast of the current development in global resources. Excuse me for asking, but can you help me recall where me met. Did you get my address from somebody else? I'm very grateful of your effort to keeping me updated and that's the reason why I ask. I'm looking forward to reading from you.

(Saliou Kane, Vennlig Hilsen, Saliou Kane, Programkonsulent, Fredskorpset, Oslo, Norway)





I thank you very much for the publication that you sent me and for the possibility to contribute my comments and notes as well. Right now my working situation does not allow me to read it properly, however I am passing it to my colleagues with the purpose of detailed reading. After a brief look, I evaluate the book as very interesting and offering precise information. I thank you again and if I have any commentaries after I read the book I will be very glad to send them.

(Eva Cihelkova, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic)





Many thanks. Please be sure to keep me on your circulation list. I am living in Europe, Zurich and Montpellier, and also spend around 6 months per year in Singapore, at the National University of Singapore, (NUS) as Adjunct Assoc. Professor for business sustainability by new product /service development. Clearly a lot of new products/services are more and more "energy related". I am also in touch with the Energy Studies Institute of NUS and will likely be doing investigations e.g. about the growth of nuclear power in South East Asia - having spent many years in the nulear power business myself. However, sadly, talking informally to several well-informed people, is seems the fatalistic view is growing that "we are too late to avoid very great difficulties in the future, and the "politics" will prevent the fast and effective remedial actions needed . . " - rather like the observations in your e-mail message . . . Personally, I think that in all the discussions, planning and policy-making, one area is not receiving as much attention as needed to exploit the the easy opportunity quick wins available: i.e. reducing waste, of all types, and some obvious means of reducing the need for energy - and so reducing consumption. I will need some days to study your report - then I will come back to you with some feedback.

(John Arthur Bauly, National University of Singapore, Singapore)





Thanks. Are there spanish versions?

(Ronald Mejias, Environmental Economist, Worldbank)





Thank you for your message!

(Claudia Redtenbacher, Mobility Coordinator, University of Applied Sciences bfi Vienna, Austria)





Thanks for sending me the draft report. I've read into the first 50 -60 pages so far, as I have a heavy work load for now. I look forward to reading the entire report. Yes, its a sobering assessment that impacts everyone and I thank you for putting it together.

(Edgardo Flores, SCE NR Program Manager -CSBU, sce.com, Irwindale, California, USA)





Thank you very much for this valuable document, which will be of the upmost importance for my organization, as we deal with environmental infrastructure projects along the US – Mexico Border, and energy has become one of the most important issues in the region.

(Dr. Alberto Ramírez López, Environmental Projects Manager / Gerente de Proyectos Ambientales, El Paso, TX, USA, Chihuahua, Mexico)





Thank you very much for the valuable document. I will read it really carefully while it is coming at the very right moment. Of course, I will distribute the document as wide as possible.

(Fedor Cerne, Government Office for European Affairs, GOEA, Ljubljana, Slovenia)





Thank you.

(Urszula Marchlewicz, Vice-Rectorat for Research and Cooperation with Industry Koszalin University of Technology, Poland)





Many thanks for your report, which I have to read completely, but your precis says what I have been trying to tell everybody for sometime. As you say, they are on denial. I shall send to as many as possible. I have given talk on CSP!!

(Peter Foreman)



Thank you the information you sent is verry much important. Thank you once again.

(TLeane M.J, Limpopo Office of the Premier, Transversal HRD and Planning, premier.limpopo.gov.za, South Africa)





Could you please send me a version of volume 1 when it is finalised.

(Prof. Dr. Sandor Vajda, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Division of Systems Engineering, Boston University, Boston, USA)





I looked again your book and could see that you have written it with passion. The result is really good and interesting. What a timing of your analysis when we see continuously increasing oil prises. I am sure that there will be exponentially increasing number of people reading you book.

(Timo Kauppinen, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, European Union, Brussels, Belgium)





Thank you very much!

(Dr. Phil. Dirk Jungels, Technische Universität München, Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft, Lehrstuhl für Sport, Medien und Kommunikation Technical University Munich, Faculty of Sport Science, Institute for Sports, Media and Communication, München, Germany)





Thank you very much. It is really very interesting information.

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Most impressive piece of work! If I may, inspirational. I will share with the colleagues. I also checked the site of growindus: have you any engagement at present on the food shortage crisis? Best and thanks a million.

(Pasquale Lupoli, Internation Organization for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland)





Herzlichen Dank und Congratulation für die ausgezeichnete globale Ressourcen-Ananlyse

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Thank you very much indeed for the Analysis. There are things to think about. As far as the Ukrainian context is concerned there are too many simplifications there. What I would like to stress is that our relations with Russia are much more complex then the Analysis describes. First of all, our Gas transport system is a single "entity" combining high pressure and distribution lines, which can not be separated. Meanwhile, we are not buying Russian gas as such but rather that of the Central Asian origin. That what drives our relations with Gasprom - they are responsible for the delivery of volumes contracted for us in, say, Turkmenistan to our boarder and this is certified at the entry point by customs documents. Non payment last October was not due to our inability to pay for it but rather because of a decision of Gasprom to cut 25% of that gas, saying that Turkmenistan undersupplied it, and immediately without any warning to replenish it with what they called Russian gas. But what was the price! They doubled it. At the same time Turkmenistan said that Russians were cheating - all contracted volumes for Ukraine had been taken by Gasprom. I hope that you are aware of an intermediary in this case - RosUkrEnergo. That was the core of our problem. It turned out that Russians intended to sell contracted gas for us at a double price! The problem popped up, when RosUkrEnergo refused to disclose all their docs related to these supplies. Moreover, Ukraine at that time had no need in that much gas as far as we consumed less and RosUkrEnergo had the right to export saved volumes. Do you feel the difference? They wanted us to pay double price for gas we did not ask for and export gas not consumed internally (our gas) at the European price. Regretfully, the transparency issue vs. Gasprom not touched upon in the Analysis at all.

(Viacheslav Kniazhnytsyi, Energy Counsellor, Mission of Ukraine to the European Union, Brussels, Belgium)





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Thank you so very much for the impressive project that you have undertaken and the brief introductory summary – which I liked (incl. your appropriately cynical observation of eliminating oil tax to stimulate consumption) – it is and we are in a mess, briefly put; I am equally concerned about the impending antitrade votes in US congress. Unfortunately, I am currently racing against a deadline with my own projects so that it is impossible – as tempting as it is, though – to enter into a discusasion of your important points with any depth or adequate analysis. Thanks so much for including me for your publications and I hope you will continue to keep me informed.

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Bedankt voor de toezending van dit waardevolle rapport, zowel uit een oogpunt van deskundigheid, breedheid als maatschappelijke signalering. De insteek via peak oil spreekt me zeer aan het dynamiseert als het ware de problematiek door de groeisnelheden van vraag en aanbod en hun botsing centraal te stellen. Iets meer nadruk op de noodzaak van matiging en mogelijk krimp van de materiele groei in de al rijke landen zou mij welkom zijn geweest, Het zinnetje over 'maintaining prosperity as the highest achievement' die voor ons mogelijk is had wat mij betreft wel in de samenvatting mogen staan, en wel in toch vrij scherp contrast met Jeffrey Sachs laatste boek, Common Wealth, die voor de VS nog een verrdubbeling van het gemiddeldpersoonlijk inkomen voorziet (2005: 40.000 $, 2050: 90.000 $, zie p 22). Dat lijkt toch een vorm van dagdromen. Maar bedankt voor al dit werk. Ik deel het al met anderen. Inzake de Round Table Budapest: Inderdaad begin ik bijeenkomsten als deze te mijden,het zijn er relatief veel en mijn jaren (74) beginnen ook wat mee te tellen. Echte leerlingen heb ik als bijdocent in de Sociale Faculteit van de VU niet, behalve prof Hendrik Opdebeeck van de Universiteit van Antwerpen die bij mij over Schumacher als economist promoveerde.

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Many thanks for your penetrating report. Napoleon said the England was a nation of shopkeepers, but you cannot make a living by taking in each others washing or selling things to each other. This game of 'pass the parcel at increasing value' leaves someone, eventually, holding a worthless 'asset'. I see a key conclusion of your message is that wealth generation is a product of creative production, not creative accounting. Society has held wrong values for some time. As MD of a small engineering company I believe that our modest contribution to world prosperity outshines that of many financiers. The Institution of Chemical Engineers is looking hard at long term sustainability. Despite advances of technology the next 2,000 years of civilisation may well be almost a mirror image of the last. It will be particularly tough on the grandchildren. Your report should be studied by all teachers.

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Many thanks. I do agree with the analysis of the « usefulness » of the bailout package. Money in itself does not address any root causes. One has only to think about the development theories or the theory that lack of money was the cause for underdevelopment. African countries have probably received more official cash injections than any other developing nations. So if the theory were right, African countries should be among the most developed; we all know what the reality is. Secondly, such an amount of cash- in conjunction with previous injections- cannot but turbo forward inflation worldwide, which would erode even more the already diminished purchasing power of many. Thirdly, why should tax money not only bail out sick financial institution, but in addition let go scot-free regulators and in particular managers for their failures, incompetence and greed? It is a great example for all of us to see incompetence being rewarded!

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Many thanks your report.

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That was a long letter, but there are some problems with the solution. US production prices cannot compete with China, and the production in US is far too expensive, not only in salary but also in energy. China produce goods with the double energy consumption than Europe and US produce the same goods with 50 % more energy consumption so only because the US dollar became less and less compared to Euro and the american worker works more hours per week tha the Europan worker, US rested competitive in the high end market. When enery prices increases, China wil have increasing problems with their energy expensive production, even thei salaris are a fraction of an American or European salary. having travelled a ot in China an dseen their industry not only at the coast but also inside China, I cannot see this industry change rapidly, even the energy heavy factories surely allready now are in some difficulties - which they sometims solve by making worker conditions worse, sometimes they simply close down. If you manage to increase US production and thus import less from e g China, daily life products will be more expensive, meaning the purchase power of an average salary wil be weaker - that transition will not be easy and will not work on an open market un less salaries in US, Europa and China become much closer. China needs machines for modernising their factories, and Europe an US can produce them, but China sometimes just buy a few and then start copying. In principle, there is nothing wrong in expecting that chinese average salary should reach a Western level to obtain that these problems are levelled out, but that will be a hard time, and down that road, energy consumption will explode. I am not sure that windmill etc production can catch up, and even if it does, other aw materials will go into mnus: water, aluminium, copper etc, etc. There is a lot more to this complex. Good luck to us all.

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Many thanks for your most interesting draft paper about the Mortgage Manure hitting the Financial Fan and it's connection with the coming Energy Crisis. I should explain that I use Ferrand as a nomme de guerre to save confusion with my well known cousin Eddie Sytobart who runs a large international transport business. Many years ago I wrote a short article for The Chemical Engineer magazine, under the title Money is the Paper Representation of Energy and predicted that if the two have a constant numerical relationship, Money will obey the Three Laws of Thermodynamics. I gave a simplistic version of the Three Laws as: One. You cannot get anything for nothing. Two. You cannot get anywhere near getting anything for nothing, some energy must needs be wasted/discharged unused to make a system work. Three. Everything goes wrong sometime - tends to decay. Mankind, and especially politicians have forgotten/have never learnt the above. Banks have behaved like the two ladies of English legend who earned a precarious living by taking in each others washing. Rudyard Kipling wrote a good poem about it all see http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_copybook.htm. My initial comment on the paper is that it has no diagrams. As the Chinese say a line is worth a thousand words Also a one page Executive Summary would be helpful. As far as Britain is concerned, it is my view that given some control of population numbers, Britain can develop most of it's energy requirements locally, using Sun, Wind, Tide, Coal [200 years worth+ still available] Waste, CO2 recycling for Biofuels, Cement and Towns Gas. But as I said in the introduction to my 1986 talk The Greenhouse Effect and the Cost of Pollution - Upsetting the World's Ecologial Balance has cost a lot of money, and will cost a lot more to re-balance it. I came into "matters environmental" in 1970, not because of Climate Change, but because of the possible physiological effects of more CO2 in the atmosphere, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A11109133. This is a very good source of "Climate Information" from Australia http://www.sciencealert.com.au/ editor@sciencealert.com.au, they have been on about the acidification of the Oceans affecting Corals and Shellfish, the Royal Society have also been investigating this subject. This is very much a medium to long term effect? It is quite possible that Nature may "adjust matters" by a drastic World population reduction ?

(Andrew Stobart, BSc (Chem Eng), A Ferrand Stobart & Associates, Secretary, Research Executive, Grünhaus Project, WADE, www.localpower.org, Liverpool, United Kingdom)





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Thank you this document.

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Thanks for your excellent report. I would say that I regards population as a major problem and do not agree with more immigration into the USA, because they are causing 100X as much damage as the people come from!! I totally agree that the economics system needs a radical change. UK is hopeless in believing that services will support them!! You are right, production and local rather than stealing from the poor.

(Peter Foreman, Airline Analyst, USA)





I do not know why I was selected to receive such an important document. After all, I am a Professor of Mathematics, who retired one year and a half ago, but I am sorry to stay and do nothing, while I accumulated so much experience in teaching mathematics of operations research (54 years), so that I continue to teach part-time, and perhaps find a better paying job. No doubt, the crises the report is talking about, are the result of many incompetent people, who can not evaluate the results of their actions, because they do not know mathematics and therefore they are weak even in the economical sciences, and on the other hand do not care about anybody else than them selves. Planck has done a good job by putting together the reports, and perhaps, some of the people who got them are in positions to do something right. I noticed that there are facts which have been omitted from the report, apparently topics that Planck does not want to handle, to be gentile to a lot of people. However, the life is brutal, hence the effects will be visible soon. Anyway, I realized a long time ago, the things are not improving before hitting the bottom, and unfortunately, my life is too short to reach that time (I am pessimistic as I was when I left my country for ever, to be able to continue to do my job in reasonable conditions). If I can be helpful in any way in the hard work of improving the education of administrations, based upon the exact sciences, tell me please, I am available at any time, and what is left in my energy will find some good purpose.

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I will certainly read it with interest.

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This is very interesting. Thank you for sending it to me. I will read more and get back to you shortly. And I have one more question: are you the one who sent me another article few month ago, are you in Netherlands somewhere? I did not write back for a while because I was moving to the United States and I am still settling in in New Jersey because I am doing my PhD here at Rutgers New Jersey right now. So, yes I am interested and would be a part of your group as much as I can. I will read and get back to you.

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(Ketema Tadesse, Director General, Southern and Eastern African Mineral Centre, SEAMIC, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)





ou wrote me few months ago, and send me interesting materials about oil and world situation, and I wanted to keep in touch but I was traveling and pretty busy all this time, so I did not have much time. So I wanted to reconnect, hear from you and continue the exchange. Please keep me posted.

(Alexander Cheryomukhin, Azerbaijan Psychological Association, The Institute for Social Connections, Colorado, USA)





Can you please tell me more about the Planck Foundation, and why it is so interested in this energy issue?

(Ng Weng Hoong, Editor, Energy Asia, Singapore)





The credit crisis is very simply in the short term easily solved. 1/Exec. Order to suspend “mark to market”, allow US companies to repatriate profits at cap gains rates not the highest corp tax rates in indust world; 2/ Loan money not buy toxic assets while fireing Paulson and stopping his “conflicts of interest” with Goldmann. 3/ Hope Barney Franks and Nancy Pelosi die suddenly with Chris Dodds and the leader of the Senate whose name I will not utter. Long term your thots I would look at with some cynicism but interest. Listen to Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich not the mainstream socialist media! Good luck.

(Robert Arnold, President, IntelliTec College, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA)





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(Rich Rayhill, Vice President, Ridgeline Energy, Boise, Indiana, USA)





We appreciate the time you have taken to share your ideas and suggestions with the foundation regarding the Global Future Analysis report.

(Stephanie Jones, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA)





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Thank you for telling me so much information.

(Mr. H.L. Zheng, PetroChina, China)





Thanks for the report. It looks like a great piece of work. Wonderfull to see it being spread around the globe, for free. For your information and mybe updates, on our website www.globaldemandconference.com or www.solarplaza.com you can download a report about the demand of solar energy (for free). We have interesting and challenging times ahead. Let's make things happen!

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(Kirsten Gelsdorf, Food Policy Support Team, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA Timor-Leste)





Thanks very much for your interesting report.

(Jeff Mizener, IEEE, Siemens Energy and Automation, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA)





Thank you very much for sending to me a document of the Global Future Analysis Report- version 2008 which is relating to the Credit Crisis joins the Energy Crisis. I am not analysis person and I'd like to read that report to gain more informations and knowledges.

(Mr. Ou Choupkosal, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Senior official, Microfinance and SME financing, Sangkat Wat Phnom, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia)





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Our readers are the 40,000 engineers that understand the importance of energy, minerals, and water. Thanks for bringing this all together and to my attention. I'll need some time to digest the information, but I think I can help disseminate it for Planck. We would, however, be preaching to the choir. You really need to get the knuckleheads in the mainstream media to seize on this. Talk to you soon.

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Thanks.

(Konstantinos Mocas, T.T. ELTA AEDAK, TT Hellenic Postbank S.A. & Hellenic Post Mutual Fund Management Company S.A., Athens, Greece)





Thank you for sending this material to us. It’s fascinating, but we feel that as commercial publishers we have covered very many of the same areas in our recent publication The Hot Topic by Gabriele Walker and Sir David King. I am sorry to disappoint you, but wonder whether you might consider approaching more directly environmentally conscious publishers like Earthscan, for example.

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Thank you for sending me the GFA document, I will definitely make the best use of it and I try my best to spread it around. I am thinking of setting up a face book group for the purpose of the Global Resource Analysis; please let me know if there is one already so I can send out invitations to the people within my Network. Also I think setting up a blog that will serve as am online discussion forum will just be appropriate for educating and sensitization. I am already thinking about developing a local TV programme that will focus on the GRA theme. It will take a while to fully accomplish because of the financial involvement but if all things work out well, it will impact greatly on Africa's economic development. There is so much to be done and I believe all things are possible by the grace of God. Let me know if you need me to do anything.

(Yinka Suleman, Journalist/Editor, Connect Africa Magazine)





Thank for your report.

(Vong Sok, Head of Watershed, Wetlands and Coastal Zone Office, Watershed, Wetlands and Coastal Zone Office, Department of Nature Conservation and Protection, Ministry of Environment, Phnom Penh, Cambodia)





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(Amit Agarwal, India)





Thank you.

(Eissa Yagouh Musu, Programme Manager, Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development)





Could you do a copy/paste so I can put this on my website. As it is I can only slide it onto the desktop and pick it up by the site, and it would be too small to read. Good stuff.

(Jo-Ann Jennings, News Editor, Bixby Bulletin, USA)





Thank you for this very important report that I will read as soon as I have some free time.

(Albert Enéas Gakusi, Principal Evaluation Officer, Operations Evaluation Department, OPEV, African Development Bank)





Thank you so much for e-mailing me your study. I appreciate very much the friendly no-gobbledygook language (needs proof-reading, though) and the thorough and no-nonsense analysis. A few comments: While energy production and the associated pollution is one of your main subjects, the remedies propositions could be, in my view, augmented. Although you don’t really mention the global warming dispute, it is here and it affects budgets and politics. I believe that much of the brouhaha about what’s causing the climate change could be avoided, for it's not only CO2 that's exuded out of the funnels and exhaust-pipes of air-polluting industries, vehicles, airplanes, ships and other fuel burners. Those fumes comprise many immediately dangerous or delayed-action poisonous and carcinogenic agents that cause epidemics of asthma, bronchitis, lung cancer and other tumors. There’re significantly more such cases in and around industrial zones and areas of dense road-traffic. Global warming or not, I have the guts feeling that while most of the climate-sceptics do pursue genuine science, many politicians would use their advice only as long as it didn’t tell them to reduce their industrial supporters' air-polluting emissions. Poisonous, pathogenic, and carcinogenic air-pollution is bad, it kills people now. Reduce it and thus also the emission of CO2. Massive replacement of fuel by green or at least greener energy, so that also less CO2 is produced, would require technological developments and political will. I don't think that democratic countries would turn communist if their governments invest taxpayers' monies in subsidizing anti-pollution technologies and in developing alternative and clean energy sources. Don’t they invest every now and again taxpayers’ money along with their son’s lives in overseas wars aimed at securing oil supplies? The consensus among all camps should be to fight pollution.... fight it on the land, fight it on the water, fight it in the air. And never forget where it comes from, and why it keeps increasing. If we declare war on pollution, we can mobilize national resources of all sorts, as in any other war and consider pollution to be an enemy. Enemy to the nations, enemy to the humanity. Polluters who're not doing all they can to eliminate it from their production and consumptions processes should be considered enemy's collaborators. Pollution kills more people in a month than all the acts of terror together kill in a year. And winning the war against pollution is almost synonymous with solving the energy problem. Such war requires money, lots of money, at least a fraction of what we spend on wars and preparation for wars, to be spent on promoting clean energies, reclaiming polluted habitats, and whatever else is needed. Every public cent spent on fighting pollution and promotion of clean energy sources will return with interests, owing to resulting savings on public health, and increased production of cleaner agricultural and marine produce. Additionally, if nations start seriously developing clean energy sources, they'll reduce their political dependence on mineral fuels producers, and thus save on military expenses and on political and financial bribes to all sorts of rulers. In fact, war on pollution is the best investment societies and nations could make. But would they?

(M. Ben-Yami, Fisheries Adviser, World Fishing Columnist, Kiryat Tiv'on 36056, Israel)





Thank you very much for your email. The demand for energy in general and clean energy in particular is valued in trillions of US dollars. Our company alone has Letters of Intent in an approximate amount of US $10 billion dollars. Currently, no financial source anywhere in the world is willing to fund them.

(Shmuel Ovadia, Managing Director, SDE Energy Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel)





Thanks.

(Christian Javitte, Responsable Régional, Nasco Karaoglan Insurance, Dubai)





Thank u a lot for ur valuable information.

(Yassir Ahmed Hassan, Animal Resources Research Corporation, Khartoum, Sudan)





Thank you.

(Eng. Emad Saad, Project Manager of Al Bee Al Sagheer & Editor in chief Al Murshed Magazine, Abu Dhabi Municipality, National Coordinator, Member of the board of Directors Arab Network for Environment and Development, Holder of Abu Dhabi Environmental Distinctiveness Award 2007, Holder of Sharjah Voluntearing Award 2005)





I am now in my 83rd year and therefore not a relatively active member of the group that is responsible for initiating change but I can send out thoughts to some of the "mover and shakers". That is what I have just done by emailing the following thoughts to some of our politicians and other individuals who are in a position to consider taking note of the information on the present credit crisis. I thank you for the information which you sent to me and hopefully it will have some effect on thinking.

(Arnold Ward, Townsend Park, Australia)





Thank you!

(Prof. Li Luming, Tsinghua University, China)





Thanks so much for your report.

(Saowaluck Thithapant, Finance Director, Siam Makro, Bangkok, Thailand)





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(Augusto Soares, World Vision International)





Thank you. We would be grateful, if we could receive from you specific contact details of Gijs.

(Shmuel Ovadia, Managing Director, SDE Energy, Tel Aviv, Israel)





Thank you for this. I should like to know more about the Planck Foundation.

(Andrew Bone, Head of International Relations, De Beers Group, London, United Kingdom)





Thank you for your document on the Credit Crisis joins the Energy Crisis which makes for interesting reading. I have no doubt the world we know it is in a crisis. However, unless we do sometime about the crisis and no matter how small that contribution is, we will continue being in a crisis for generations to come. I would like to speak to the Energy part of your document; yes oil is fast becoming an expensive resource, soon very few people will be able to afford. As you so well documented with the drying up of the oil wells this will curtail transport of every form, leaving only the wealthy mobile. I think we should stop and consider a little deeper into your statement, the effect this will have on the people in general. Lets us break the energy crisis to the smallest denomination, which are the people in the street. The grower of food will not be able to get his/her surplus supplies to markets and the impact this will have on people living in built up cities. This will contribute to food becoming more expensive resulting in large numbers of people living below the breadline. And this will not only apply to the developing world. I could continue with this chain of thought and no doubt will be preaching to the converted. Therefore I will go onto asking some questions. What is your foundation going to do about what you have so eloquently written on? Can we expect to see a flood of paper on this subject, documentation telling us what we already know? Is it the intention of your foundation to contribute to making a difference on the ground by way of looking at alternative energy? When I say alternative energy I speak of SANITATION. Think an energy source, (supply) that is here for as long as we have people and animals. Think what can be done, with the one millions tons of sanitation plus that is generated daily by humans alone. Take one Washington hospital with an endless supply of sanitation and put that through a digester and all the heating requirements are taking care of. No oil used for heating. The digester can be built to fit the required needed be it for a small family or a hospital. People in developing countries look and want to be like people in the western world, therefore imperative the first world makes use of sanitation as an alternative to some their energy requirements and the rest of the world will follow. May take sometime but if donors call the tune, who knows the oil wells may take a little longer to dry up. But on the other hand if we keep to only writing about the problem we will use all the trees, which will only add to the problem. Thank you once again for your document.

(Ethne Davey, Social Development Manager, Working for Water, Department Water Affairs and Forestry, Republic of South Africa)





Many thanks for this interesting email and the rich report. It is really eye opening document.

(Fatima Elsheikh, Programme Officer, United Nations Developement Program, Sudan)





Thanks.

(Dr. Federica Bicchi, Lecturer in International Relations of Europe, International Relations Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, Londen, UK)





Thank you very much for the report. I will read it with attention.

(Anna Karlsdóttir, Assistant Professor, Human Geography and Tourism studies, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland)





Thanks for sharing this interesting piece of work with me. I am certainly going to share this first version of your report with my colleagues, partners and NGO networks here in Kenya.

(Angela Wauye. Food Security Coordinator, ActionAid Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya)





Thank you for providimg me with this comprehensive analysis. I’ll do everything in my power to promote alternative aproaches in solving this new century crisis troughout our system.

(Draško Stijovic, National Bank of Serbia, Insurance Supervision Department, Beograd, Serbia)





Many thanks.

(Ana Magraner, DG for Education and Culture, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium)





Thank you very much for sharing this information with me. Quite valuable and interesting particularly at this time and it will be such a waste if I kept it for myself. Thanks therefore for allowing me to distribute it around.

(Angele Luh Sy, Information Officer, United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya)





Thank you very much for sending me so valuable information about Global Future Analysis report, which is not only informative but a very important learning for me. I am not a scholar like you, but I am really grateful to you to teach me such way. Thanks again and please send me your more research papers, articles etc in order to learn more.

(Ms. Dil Afroje Chowdhury, CEO, Women Watch Bangladesh, WWB, Dhanmondi, Dhaka, Bangladesh)





Thanks for the mail and the first version of the Global Future Analysis report, I realy appreciate it. Thanks ones more.
(Dr. Abba Sherff Haidara, CEO, Friends of the Poor, Liberia)





Thanks for sharing. I'll make sure that the Lt. Governor sees it.

(Carolyn Brown Hodge, Director of Rural Affairs, Office of Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn, Springfield, Illinois, USA)





I appreciate your analysis very interesting.

(Girma Taddese, International Livestock Research Institute, ILRI, Narobi, Kenya)





I would like to express my gratitude to you for sharing this intellectual, informative educational piece with me. coincidentally the night before receiving this I have been watching CNN provides a very shallow picture of the financial crisis without any in depth analysis. I have wanted better understanding of the problem and why the 700 billion governmental bail-out-fund would be a solution to structural economic crisis!

(Gon Myers, Programme Advisor/Head of Programme, WFP, N'Djaména, Chad)





Thanks for forwarding this to me. It indeed is enlightening.

(Roselyn Nakirya, Project Assistant, International Council on Social Welfare, Africa Devision, Entebbe, Uganda)





Thank you very much for your very elaborate and interesting Global Future Ananysis Report supported by your Foundation. Iam particularly keen to collaborate with your Foundation on a number of such issues affecting our global world and particularly our developing countries and how individually and collectively we can help shape the trend of things. Hence my strong desire to be an active member of the Social Movement. I would therefore be interested to participate in the Amsterdam Meeting of Jan.21-22, 2009 and hope that there might be possibilities of facilitating my participation.I would even be glad to be accorded opportunity to make a Presentation.

(Chebet Maikut, Vice President EAFF, Chairman NDF, IFAP Agricultural Research Committee, President Uganda National Farmers Federation, Uganda)





Thank you very much.

(Prof. Dr. Hab. Bronislaw W. Woloszyn, Director, Head of the CIC, Centrum Informacji Chiropterologicznej ISEZ PAN, Instytut Systematyki i Ewolucji Zwierzat, Polska Akademia Nauk, Kraków, Poland)





Many thanks for the report. Brilliant analysis, but terrible English. But it’s worth it!

(Graham Ford, Managing Director, HelioDynamics, Member of the EnergyMixx Group, Bourn, Cambridge, UK)





Thank you so much for this pertienent analysis and the good attached document! I want to involved on your plan: "Planck Foundation its final goal is the stimulation of and support for a huge/wide Global/Local Development Movement for local/city/municipal sustainable prosperity." I am really interested to get the PDF document on Grow|OS further food production. Thank you so much for the good work that you are been doing! I am sending what I am doing too. I am organizing the Earth Charter Community Summit on Climate Change on October 11, 2008 in Thies, Senegal. Thank you so much for this usefull document which will really help for our work.

(Ibrahima Seck, Africa Coordinator, International Network for Cultural Diversity, Thies, Senegal)





Thanks for interesting update.

(Henry Wang, GM & Principal Service Manager Clean Coal Energy China, Shell Global Solutions International, Beijing, China)





Thank You very much for your Analysis report on Energy Crisis. I have read your previous analysis report and I have so much valuable information that I do not know before. I will share this information to my relatives, college, friend, my staff in my office since I know this information is very important to know for many people. The impact of information may make people change. Again thank you very much for your kindness.

(Ms. Minton Mariaty Simanjuntak, Police Senior Liaison Officer, Indonesian Embassy Dili, Indonesia)





Most interesting.

(David Middleton, CEO, Business Council for Sustainable Development, BCSD-UK, UK of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, WBCSD, Birmingham, UK)





Thank you for sending to me this very important document.

(Ilia Mamane Harou, Ing. Agroforestier, Coordinateur National des bases World Vision Niger, Niamey, Niger)





Thanks and good luck.

(Jim Harmon, Vice President, Equity Research, Barclays Capital)





Very interesting report. Great to get to know you anyhow. And thanks!

(John Innes, Lead Social Sector Specialist, ECSHD, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA)





Thanks for the report on the Global Future Analysis. I will read it for the benefit of others and myself with the future in focus. All in all, energy is important and will be the determining factor in future development of nations as you have pointed out. It is worth noting however that all the energy that we have on earth originates from the "SUN" -- Bio-derived, wind, water, heat, light - all come from the sun and which ever nation will have the technology to harness these massive resources DIRECTLY and more cheaply will certainly have an upper hand over the other nations. Large human populations, count positively towards this effort and hence the rise of the East against the West based on thinking globally but acting locally. I believe that more actors will trap more of the sun energy than fewer actors. To me, it appears like the dye is already cast with respect to any future events. I hope to read more from you.

(Hudson Masambu, Agriculture Specialist, USAID/REDSO/ESA, Nairobi, Kenya)





Thank you.

(John McCormick, Editorial Page Editor, Tribune, Chicago, USA)





Thank you for this interesting contribution to the debate on the energy and credit crisis. As suggested I am copying it to colleagues in DFID's PRD Climate and Environment, Growth and Investment and Central Research departments to consider. If they want to follow up they will contact you direct.

(Lucy Livings, DFID, the Department for International Development: leading the British Government's fight against world poverty, UK)





Thank you. I'll read it carefully

(H.L. Zheng, Petro China, Beijing, China)





Thank you. I will circulate it internally.

(James Paw, Programme Co-ordinator Officer, Marine Environment Division, International Maritime Organization, London, UK)





Most of the information are very valuable for me and I will send it to my working groups. Thank you so much.

(Ulku Kocer, Environmental Engineer, Ministry of Transport General Directorate of Railways, Harbors and Airports Construction, Ankara, Turkye)





Thank you!

(Alexis Åkesson, Editor for HedgeCo.Net, more than 10,000 hedge funds and 25.000 hedge fund people in just 1 database, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA)





Thank you for the report. I look forward to a cup of tea and some serious learning this weekend.

(Kantha Shelke, Ph.D., Corvus Blue, science and research on food and ingredient technologies, Chicago, IL, USA)





Many thanks ! I appreciate.

(Prof. Rokhaya Daba Fall, Directeur Général, Institut National de Pédologie, University Cheikh Anta Diop, researcher at IFAN, Senior Technical Advisor Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries, Dakar, Sénégal)





On behalf of the Honourable Marlene Jennings, M.P. for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce - Lachine, I acknowledge receipt and thank you for your e-mail. Please be assured that your correspondence will be brought to Marlene's attention for her consideration.

(Anne Cleary, Parliamentary Assistant to the Hon. Marlene Jennings, P.C., M.P., Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Lachine, Parliament of Canada, Québec, Canada)





Thanks for your report on the energy and credit crisis. I hadn't noticed as my wife won't let me watch anything but FOX news and all they report are fairytales about beautiful Sarah, brilliant, the Acorn nuts, and Ayers the terrorist!! Would you like to head up my political Party" Soldiers of Democracy"? As soldiers we will march on Washington til they get things right, like MLK, Jr. did. As the old soldiers of World War I experienced in past years, they don't care for mobs of patriotic soldiers back there spoiling congressmen's leisure life and curtailing the PAC"s big buck donations to re-elect campaigns. Maybe we could borrow from the treasury to buy a hotel for the soldiers to stay in or we could bivouc on the capitol grounds. Private Clarke, Your comrade in Arms.

(Joseph Clarke, Wood to Energy Specialist, Cedar Street Plaza LLC, Muscatine, IA, USA)





Thanks for the report. I look forward to ready it, being a planner for a local government that should be helping cities and counties adopt a post-carbon, urban form. Can you paginate the ToC and condense some the underutilized and redundant "copy right" pages? Sacrificing artistic style to save paper would give the report a little better presentation to your "green" audience.

(Kevin A. Davidson, Planner II, Mohave County, Kingman, Arizona, USA)





Thanks very much for this excellent comprehensive overview of the current situation. I cannot agree more. Actually, last week I gave a presentation for a group of entrepreneurs in the North of The Netherlands and explained exactly the same mechanism of the current downturn with the energy supply problem as the trigger and weak governments without vision as the underlying cause. I would love to come to the conference, but unfortunately I have to give a presentation at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, January 19-21, 2009. It is such a pity that your conference coincides with the one in Abu Dhabi, since many policy makers will go to the conference in the Emirates. However, it is probably impossible for you to change the date. Hopefully, I can get the proceedings of the conference in Amsterdam. Some of the technical solutions proposed in the report might require some further discussion.

(Dr. Jacob Klimstra, Sr. Energy and Engine Specialist, Wartsila Power Plants, Zwolle, The Netherlands)





Thanks for your report.

(Mr. Jorge Sequeira, Long Life Learning Project, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, Providencia Santiago de Chile, Chile)





Thanks for your analysis. A lot of important ideas in there. I will share it with others working on these issues they can benefit from your insights.

(Kevin Zeese, Director of Voters for Peace, Takoma Park, MD, USA)





Thank you for your information on such critical situation. I will pass on your informmation to the relevants so that they have to be alert and ready to ward the necessary action.

(Tolesa Shagi, Geology Institute, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)





Thank you very much for the extremely interesting report.

(Mauno Inkinen, CEO, Estonian Association of Architectural and Consulting Engineering Companies, EAACEC, Tallinn, Estonia)





Thank you very much for this information. I will translate in french and appreciate it.

(Mama Koite Doumbia, President, Syndicat National de l’Education et de la Culture, Dravela, Bamako, Mali)





Thanks for the report.

(Patrick Fong, Associate Professor, Departmental Student Exchange Officer, Deputy Award Co-ordinator, BSc Hons in Construction Economics and Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)





First of all I would like to thank you for your letter on 05 October informing us about the release of the Global Future Analysis report. Thank you also for sharing your views on the Credit and Energy Crises that the world, not only the US, is experiencing. Your letter has provided us with a good introduction of the report which we promise to read with much interest. We have downloaded both the Global Future Analysis and Global Resources Analysis reports. There is a strategic importance of being an environmental group in a country having a large oil supply. The current state of the world’s finance and energy outlook would make people aware of what we’ve been advocating all along. Finally I would like to invite you to contribute an article in our upcoming Wastepaper Magazine Issue 26. EEG will be honored if you could provide us a short version (around 2,000 words) of the article/letter that you sent us, of course with reference to the two outstanding reports that you’ve recently made available. We would gladly place your article as our feature article for its relevance and timeliness and give full credit to you and your organization. The Wastepaper Magazine is our bi-annual publication distributed in schools and companies locally and internationally, with over 20,000 copies in circulation. The Magazine will be out by January of next year. Should you wish to view a previous issue, kindly forward your postal address and we will send it to you. We look forward to your positive response regarding this matter.

(Mrs. Habiba Al Marashi, Co-Founder and Chairperson, Emirates Environmental Group, EEG, NGO with accredited Status with the UNEP, IUCN and UNCCD, Board Member UN Global Compact, Dubai, United Arab Emirates)





Thank you for sending me the piece. I am in in a small town called Stoneham near Boston. The media has been swamped with the crisis and this is ofcourse mixed with the elections. I do not think anybody of them is really interested in the truth. SP at one stage claimed that 25 % of the energy came from Alaska, that it was time to be free of the Middle East Oil - the truth is that Africa has replaced the ME and now provides more than 20%. What I find so facinating is that suddenly the sanctity of the market and the need for Government intervention comes in so powerfully. I wish I could meet some of the Yuppies who used to come to Tanzania. We return to Tanzania next week.

(Prof. Adolfo C. Mascarehnas, Author, Vice Chairman, Links Trust Fund and Organization, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania)





Thanks for your report.

(Moray Rumney, lead technologist, Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA)





Thanks John for sharing the report with me. I will take time to read as the content of your email raised indeed my interest to understand more the global issues that affect very much our work in UNICEF. I have shared the report with my colleagues too.

(Silvia Pasti, Chief Child Protection, UNICEF, Thuraya, Southern Sudan)





Thank you for sending me a very insightful study on the current Energy and Credit Crises. I would certainly share these with others. It would be nice if you could share your study/suggestions, if any, on what we the poorest nations could do to fend ourselves from the impending crises due the credit crunch, oil price and food price hike. Of course, there is no alternative to productive investment.

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Thank you for kindly sending the thoughtful 158-page PDF copy of your Global Future Analysis (GFA) report, accompanied with the detailed explanatory justification for the report. Very interesting, but can it be of any use or relevance in terms of the immediate sustainable developments needs of Sub-Saharan Africa, i.e. the least developed and poorest region in the world? Your answer to the above simple but possibly unwelcome question can be to say: either "why not ?", or still better "we do not know!". Well, it does not really matter, because Sub-Saharan Africa was forgotten (and therefore unfortunately excluded from the benefits of science, technology and access to modern energy services) not 150 years ago, but 500 years ago, i.e. after Vasco da Gamma went around the Cape Coast in Southern Africa. So if strictly seen, the GFA report does not, or can not really matter to, or for us. Still, we are going in space around the sun (i.e. together with developed and advanced developing countries) covering 911,000,000 km every year. Incidentally, to understand the GFA report, there is no pressing need "to understand Currency, Credit, Minerals, Energy, and Water". Actually the real causes of the credit and energy crunch and crisis were apparently the strategies and policies intelligently taken on "building unregulated free markets", and the added directions imposed by the "Consensus" of leading financial institutions of the developed world in the early 1980s. For further details and additional observations on the credit crunch, please refer to Newsweek of October 13th, 2008. The detailed explanatory note is to be commended for the many ideas expressed and concerns raised, although it may not be easy to follow fully your arguments. All the same, you and your Organization are to be congratulated for the thoughtful report and serious concerns expressed about the future of planet Earth.

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Heard a lot about this whole economic turmoil thing? Wish you understood quite where the world had gone wrong and why your house was worth less and your supermarket bill is more? An organisation called the Planck Foundation is aiming to explain all this to you in its downloadable Global Future Analysis report (click here to get your own copy). The report looks at every type of crisis that has befallen or is about to befall the world: energy, credit and even water. We’re not sure we agree with everything that the report says or predicts because it’s just one view on the situation. But still, interesting reading for anyone who would like to get a little bit more out of watching the stocks fall on the news each night…..

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I have been reading the somewhat lengthy (aprox.250 pages) Global Future Analysis report by the Planck Foundation, I’ll try to do a short(ish) review. “It has been said that there are three types of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened,” it says on the cover of the report. The Global Future Analysis report covers the interfacing/interaction between the energy crisis and credit crisis, which has been making headlines globally, also analyzed is the water crisis and its effect on food prices. The energy crisis has two effects, according to the report, energy will become much more expensive and no longer abundantly available. Firstly it will give a reach/distance contraction within the economy (less transport and less mobility, due to high energy prices). Secondly, due the fact that energy is used for everything, expenses will rise. “You need to understand currency, credit, minerals, energy and water. Watching the news without some basic knowledge of those five is useless.” The report says, “knowledge of those five make the past, present and future clearer.” The analysis is very up to date, covering the current dynamic credit and energy situation. Also the governmental bail-out fund (which it explains in depth, non-favourably) proposed by US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson which was turned down on September 29th by the House of Representatives. ”This big figure gambling can only lead to a disconnection with the rest of the world economy for the US, UK/Europe and Japan,” the report says, “due the fact that Euro and the Yen have today the highest possible dollar reserves ever, certainly since their massive support of the dollar of the last month. The Central Banks of Europe and Japan thought that they could fix the US problems overnight in buying lots of dollars since mid July till mid September.” The report goes on to say, “production gives real payment power, that’s something the US economy is learning the hard way. Increasing production isn’t easy in these times of expensive energy. But combining the bail-out with production increase could do the job.” One bright spot in all this, it says, “The Energy Crisis certainly will ‘bring the jobs back home’. Long distance travel will also decline (stimulating the national leisure industry) according to the report. Air travel, air transport, road transport and commuting are where we will see the effects of high oil prices instantly. Local is to be king of the 21st century. The report approves of T. Boone Pickens proposal to re-energize America using peakoil/gas/coal, the benefits of wind energy and the exporting wealth facets (trade deficits and foreign policy) of oil imports. On the other side of the world, it also talks about the Chinese government deciding that sustainable prosperity is the most wanted/economic direction for the 21st century. ”Bail-outs without any structural change it will lead to nothing than more problems. And yes, Obama has a point when he said that mortgage bail-outs during the ‘30ties has proven to be successful. But those were other days: Back then there was no Energy Crisis that put restrictions to growth, something we certainly have now.” The name of the commercial version is ‘The Perfect Storm: when the energy crisis joins the credit crisis.

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Credit crisis joins energy crisis. 2008-10-03 10:12, The newly released Global Future Analysis report covers the interaction between the Energy Crisis and Credit Crisis, which both has taken the lead in the daily news worldwide. The report analyses the causes and effects of both the Credit Crisis and the Energy Crisis and analyses the each other enforcing powers (1 + 1 = 4) of both. Additionally are analyzed also the Water Crisis and its severe effects on food prices. The Energy Crisis has two huge effects, according to the GFA report. Energy will become much more expensive and no longer abundant available. This is severe: we use energy for almost anything, so this has an effect for almost anything. First it will give a distance contraction within the economy (less transport and less mobility, due to high energy prices). Second, due to the fact that energy is used for everything, it will make almost everything more expensive. So the resources prices based type of inflation grows and given the fact that the economy doesn't grow, stagflation occurs. This was the trigger of the Credit Crisis: rising energy price that started to eat out the fragile payment power of households. By this the increasing home price engine stopped. We're living in a decade in which 3 billions customers with substantial purchase/payment power are entering the global resources market. A never before seen event, which not only has speed up PeakOil, but rather has given us PeakX. Resources will never become cheap again, due to both declining supply and increasing demand. The economic effects of the Energy Crisis are therefore severely underestimated, the GFA reports underlines. The Credit Crisis has a capital contraction effect within the economy. Less capital equals always less economy. So the Credit Crisis gives additional stagflation once again (added to the Energy Crisis driven stagflation). Moreover, the Credit Crisis causes a deleveraging of the money market: people/companies/investors turn their back to currencies, stocks and banks and flow to static/safe harbors like gold. The Water Crisis is still much unknown in 2008. But in the Midwest of the USA, the South of Europe, China, large parts of Africa, the Caucasus and the Middle East the Water Crisis is becoming a huge facet of the economy, according to the GFA report. Water shortages in this regions certainly increase their food prices severely (Food Production = Water Irrigation), which has direct effects on the global food prices.

(http://www.branschnyheter.se/article40579.php)





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Thank you for this very insightful writeup. I could have agreed more. I guess this crisis is a sign of human greed getting out of hand and it has now turn around to bite all of us ( directly or indirectly). I guess crisis is part of an inherent mechanism inbuild in our global economy that will trigger itself off to ensure no catastrophy. Some may call it Divine intervention to humble the market and bring it back to where it is suppose be or capable of handling. It is just like a pressure cooker. Once it reaches a maximum threshold, it has to release pressure or it will explot. We are nearing that now... I suppose. Yes, Government should also play a proactive role but they too are run by people. Malaysia regulated its market in the 97' crisis and we were lucky we were able to minimise the hit. IMF criticise Malaysian Govt for their actions. But neighbouring countries like Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia & Korea who did not take actions or adhere to IMF prescriptions were so badly hit that they were almost bankrupt. The recent crisis is a repeat of history but in a much onerous magnitude. It is always been said that human never learn from history. Relatively, the Malaysian economy is fundamentally strong, so we are able to cushion it better that the Americas, Europe and some parts of East Asia. Of course we are not spared the rod but we should be quite resilient and should ride through the crisis more agililty. Thanks for sharing your views. Hope to hear from you more.

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Thank you very much. I read it with great interest.

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This is fascinating. Who is publishing your paperback The Perfect Storm? Are you distributing it yourselves? Best wishes.

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