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Editor’s note: David Fleming’s former collaborator John Busby offers the following comment on relevant developments since Fleming’s death in 2010:
 
Demand for uranium dropped when Japan — a major consumer — closed all of its reactors in response to the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The price has remained low since, and many low-grade ore mines have closed, since their operating costs were higher than the sale price. It is an open question as to whether investment will be available to bring these back into production if demand increases again. In addition, distributed energy such as small-scale solar PV is reducing the need for new centralised power stations.

See John Busby, “Anaerobic Digestion and Distributed Energy”, 20 December 2014, available at www.after-oil.co.uk/distribute.htm .

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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