1. RESOURCE SHORTAGES: FACING FACTS. Oil: Racing to run-out
Vicious circles: oil, metals, and minerals
Water is a commodity, too
The curse and cost of complexity
Wall Street, complexity, and the shortfall in resources
2. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. We never said it would be easy
More on alternative energies
3. ECONOMIC TSUNAMI. The inflation bomb
Inflation: why the old solutions will no longer work
4. INVESTMENTS FOR A CHAOTIC WORLD. Gold: your single best bet as the commodity crisis unfolds
BRAC: staying afloat by investing abroad
Investing in the new resource war
Investing in the solutions
Our best hope: a flatter world after all.
