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David Fleming
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This is a matter of emphasis, rather than being all that needs to be said on climate change and peak oil. The peak oil argument has never claimed that the natural reduction in the supply of oil and gas will be sufficient to reduce carbon emissions at the rate required by the climate. Still less has it argued that limits to coal reserves will do so. It has, however, been able to make a reasonable case about the need to be prepared for the decline in oil supplies starting in 2015–2024 and continuing downwards thereafter.

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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