Michael C. Ruppert's Collapse is a great deal more encompassing than our focus on oil as energy and it's economic impact, but the wide variety of topics discussed are interesting and have encouraged me to branch out and learn more independently and through formal education. Collapse made me realize that the idea of the Hundredth monkey effect applies well to energy and environmental issues.
Here are a couple of other resources I have found useful looking into energy, politics, environmental issues, and economics in the past. It can be rather disheartening, but living through this energy crisis gives the opportunity to see what the causes are and how we can look to potential solutions in the future. I think that what makes it easy for the general population to ignore the issue is the timeframe. The decline in discoveries and production stretches from one generation to the next, so any changes in how we deal with the issue seem to be small. It's like the world is kicking the energy crisis can down the road to the next generation over and over.
Peak oil primer and links | Energy Bulletin
Peak Oil: The End of the Oil Age
We've already burned through almost half the world's supply of oil. How will we ride out the slide down the other side of Hubbert's Curve?
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse
Chapter 17a - Peak Oil: Energy is the lifeblood of any economy and a steady supply of energy is necessary to maintain the status quo, while an ever-increasing supply is needed to grow an economy. In this chapter, Dr. Chris Martenson explains that Peak Oil is not a theory, rather it is a description of how oil production increases over time, reaches a peak, then declines. Evidence points to a global production peak in the near future, which is troubling since the U.S. imports two-thirds of its oil and relies on it to much of its transportation and food production needs.
http://www.chrismartenson.com
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