It’s surprising to me that the University of Oxford would issue a press release with statements that are so politically incorrect, but I guess the idea of resource wars and peak oil is gaining recognition and respect.
Here’s what the press release says about a speech by Sir David King, Director of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and a former UK government chief scientist:
“I believe historians of the future will look back and see the Iraq war as the first resource war of the 21st century,” he told the British Humanist Association in a speech on February 11 [2009].
“The US is dependent on oil and was well past peak oil production when the war began. Looking at Iraq, many in the White House saw an opportunity to secure America’s oil supply by creating a friendly government which would be more amenable to providing oil to the US.”
And, King argued, it didn’t have to be this way:
“The US could have secured its energy supply without having to go to war. If Washington had invested one tenth of that money in renewable energy they’d have managed it.”
Read the whole press release here: “Sir David King warns of climate change conflict”
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