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United States “swimming in natural gas”, from “US Gas Fields Go from Bust to Boom”, Wall Street Journal, 30 April 2009, quoted in Dave Cohen, “Natural Gas Boom Gets Put on Hold”, Energy Bulletin, April 2010, available at https://www.resilience.org/stories/2010-04-19/natural-gas-boom-gets-put-hold/ . For a discussion of natural gas as clean and plentiful, see Helen Knight, “Wonderfuel: Welcome to the Age of Unconventional Gas”, New Scientist, 12 June 2010, pp 45–47. For claims of gas displacing coal, see, e.g., Mike Graham of EnCana, quoted in ASPO-USA Commentary, 21 September 2009, available at www.energybulletin.net/print/50174 . For positive views of the future of shale gas see, for instance, Danny Fortson, “The Scramble for Shale Gas”, The Sunday Times, 6 June 2010; and Gideon Rachman, “Shale Gas will Change the World”, Financial Times, 24 May 2010. For shale gas as possibly ‘saving the world’, see former Colorado Senator Tim Wirth, quoted in ASPO-USA Commentary, 21 September 2009.

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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