An Open letter to the School of Public Health, UQ, re: the looming net energy cliff
Geoffrey Chia publishes here the letter that he sent to his colleagues a few months ago. As you may have expected, he received no answer. But we know it is how it goes. So, here it is, for the record. Geoffrey Chia has also been the author of a previous post on “Cassandra’s Legacy” (UB)
Open Letter To: Staff of the School of Public Health,
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, August 2017
From: Dr Geoffrey Chia, MBBS, MRCP, FRACP
Re: The looming Net Energy Cliff, Global Economic/Industrial collapse and Human Die-off
“infinite consumption from a finite resource base is impossible”
Dear Colleagues,
I am a Cardiologist who convened the group “doctors and scientists for sustainability and social justice” in Brisbane from 2006 to 2013 www.d3sj.org. I am writing to your department in the virtually forlorn hope that a tiny handful of you may open your eyes to the most urgent public health issue we face, which will horrifically accelerate human suffering and die-off within a decade1. The effects are already being felt in many parts of the world, masquerading as global economic recession2 or the collapse of certain Middle Eastern societies. This issue has been ignored, denied and dismissed for years by “endless growth” economists and other flat earthers, but denial does not make a problem go away. I refer to the looming catastrophic curtailment of liquid hydrocarbon fuels, the “net energy cliff” that we face in the near future, which will trigger ever more wars (perhaps even nuclear war), cause global economic and industrial collapse, and cause the die-off of billions of people worldwide.
The countries most addicted to petroleum will be hardest hit and Australia will be no exception.
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