CJ Campbell's atlas has been on my bookshelf for a few years now. It is a stark reminder that there are no huge energy reserves "yet to be discovered". It also plainly shows the reader that there is no magical country that you might fix colonial ambitions on because it's the next big energy sink you feel that century old need to conquer, bust up and exploit. Nope, all been found, all depleting, some a lot further along than others. So if you can grasp that energy is the economy not the bank, you may be able to grasp all those plans for continued growth don't happen without limitless cheap energy.
Well worth acquiring or a trip to your library to have a good read. Whomever controls the world's BTU's owns the whole enchilada... Lots of reserves out there, but coal seems 2 feet deep and a mile underground will never be mined. Neither will gas or oil deposits that require more energy to get out of the ground than they can return. So clever actors tell the story different ways - you have a big brain - you can figure it out for yoursel!
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