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& REVIEWS POLITICAL PONEROLOGY: of a "pathocratic phenomenon" is explored term, provide a system of stable prices and A science on the nature of evil in disturbing detail, but in the light of a bet- promote co-operation among nations. The adjusted for political purposes ter alternative based on the laws of nature proposal may have a touch of "pipe dream" by Andrzej M. Lobaczewski and some sensible checks and balances at about it, but the alternative is too shocking Red Pill Press, UK, 2006 the insistence of an informed society. to contemplate. We have to get used to the ISBN 4-905570-04-X (194pp tpb) fact that because our modern lifestyles are Available: http://www. redpillpress.com THE OIL DEPLETION PROTOCOL so dependent on oil and are thus unsustain- f you've ever wondered why evil and by Richard Heinberg . . able in the long run, we have to curb our heartlessness can be so prevalent in the Clairview Books, UK, 2006 (first pub. in wants and vous ify with new strategies and world and why they seem to spread like an Canada by New Society Publishers, 2006) oven bere dic ' wes h to survive. based epidemic, there are answers that can be SBN 1-905570-04-X (194pp tob) ade en based Ow nents could we k found in the study of psychopathy, acondi- Available: www.clairviewbooks.com an hy ones aoc which ner wb tion of lack of conscience which may affect he peak in world oil production may together, and’ the ren oN in Month e around five per cent of the population. already be upon us, with fewer oil fields CDCSY Sources Could Meet Cemand’ on tie personal to the industrial level. Being realis- tic, he considers issues such as the trade-off in the use of agricultural land to produce Laura Knight-Jaczyk (The Secret History of being discovered, existing fields becoming the World, NEXUS 14/01) was researching _—_ depleted and oil companies overestimating this problem when she was contacted b their reserves. Unless we can reduce our . . Polish: born author Andrzej Lobaczewski dependency on oil, if not our addiction to it, fod as opposed to biofuels and the adoption and went on to edit his book. we face a bleak future of geopolitical con- ° anal eresca’e to laree scale tec natu Lobaczewski, who trained as a clinical ict and economic collapse, says Richard tt i mye “i «tialised f vod prod tur psychologist, started exploring the phenom- _ Heinberg (author of The Party's Over and ie ollguzziing industrialised 1o0¢ procuc- 4 . , _. . ion. He also gives examples of citizens' enon with colleagues in communist Poland Power Down; see reviews in NEXUS 10/04, roups and municipalities which are alread when Stalinist propaganda was being inflict- 12/05). But even to reduce our insatiable Ran inroads in ie ine with oil de ietion. ed on them, and they calculated that about emand for this energy-dense product will This ea reality check fer us all P : six per cent of their fellow students had suc- _ take decades for our industrialised civilisa- —_ y Oe cumbed to a pathological "transpersonifica- _ tion to achieve, so we'd better start now. tare tion" process in the classroom. The term As well as drawing on the latest statistics "ponerology" was coined to describe the and recent academic studies, Heinberg refers study of evil adjusted for political purposes. _ to the Oil Depletion Protocol drafted by The first draft of this book he had to burn Colin Campbell, founder and chairman of in the early 1960s just before it got into the the Association for the Study of Peak Oil hands of the secret police; the second he (ASPO) (see NEXUS 10/01), discussing its entrusted to a courier to deliver to the pros and cons and how it might be imple- Vatican but never heard of it again. The mented by nations, industries, municipali- third draft he wrote from scratch in 1984 but ties, citizens’ groups and individuals. The it's taken him over 20 years to get it pub- Protocol lays out an accord that would have lished. This edition includes an enlightening nations voluntarily reducing their oil pro- preface by Knight-Jaczyk as well as a new duction and oil imports according to a con- preface by Lobaczewski. sistent, equitable formula to match depletion The nature of evil and how it subverts rates. It would allow for an oil phase-out moral and humanist foundations and is part transition period to be planned for the long of a "pathocratic phenomenon" is explored in disturbing detail, but in the light of a bet- ter alternative based on the laws of nature and some sensible checks and balances at the insistence of an informed society. NEXUS 71 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com