300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds

I first saw this informative clip on Patrick Jones' blog http://permapoesis.blogspot.com/
Filtering the volume of information we have at our finger tips can be overwhelming. This clip is one of the simplest potted history I have seen and is a great introduction to the new book by Richard Heinberg and William E Rees, Thinking Resilience, Ch.3, The Post Carbon Reader, Edited by Richard Heinberg and Daniel Lerch, 2010