Peak oil: we must act now to avoid disaster

THE contrast between George Lee’s ‘Future Shock: End of Oil’ and the following programme, Questions and Answers (RTÉ 1, June 18), was both pronounced and scary.

George Lee was adamant that we are rapidly approaching the end of the oil era and that Ireland was one of the countries least prepared for this enormous shock.

If we wish to avoid enormous hardship, every decision in politics, economics, education, and even religion, must be viewed through the prism of peak oil and climate change. We need the focus of something like a wartime crisis to galvanise our efforts to avoid a disaster.