End of the Oil Age? - Peak Oil

Jeremy Paxman, anchor person of the BBC's flagship Current Affairs Newsnight show, presented this program on 21st December 2005, arguably a watershed item in the BBC's presentation of energy issues and climate change. Paul Mason: "The end of the oil age - Running on empty?" BBC Science Editor Susan Watts: "The end of the oil age - What cost to the planet?" BBC Historian Greg Neale: "The end of the Oil age - What comes next?" Discussed by: James Howard Kunstler, Author: The Long Emergency Tom Burke, Academic and Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, who has advised Rio Tinto on environmental issues. Richard Dean North, writer and Fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Sonia Shah, Author: Crude - a History of Oil. Professor Paul Ormerod, Author: Why Most things Fail. Professor Felipe Fernandez Armesto - Author: Ideas that Changed the World.