This is an important book [...] a clearly thought out and well written analysis of the extremely grave situation we are in...

- John Jopling

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"Occupy World Street is an excellent text, even amazing. It is comprehensive, original, and very well written. Jackson's proposal for post-collapse strategy is the first plausible, constructive scenario I have seen."

  - Dennis Meadows, co-author of The Limits to Growth

Fossil fuel subsidies that promote consumption, such as below-market gasoline prices, totaled $557 billion worldwide in 2008, ten times the amount of all foreign aid.