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Letter: Oil crisis

Published 13 November 2013

From Bill Summers

Jeremy Leggett speaks clearly enough about fossil fuel depletion, but understates its impact (2 November, p 28). The uncontrollable civil strife that will follow will bring the biggest discontinuity in human history.
Sturminster Newton, Dorset, UK

Issue no. 2943 published 16 November 2013

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