Oil shortages can wreak havoc on the global economy as we saw since the first oil crisis in 1973. These have resulted in dramatic shifts in politics and regional balance of power.

What are the current reserves of other minerals? Are non-renewable resources close to becoming depleted? Would it send the world economy into crisis or provoke a severe economic recession or depression? These are questions that the latest book from Waves of the Future, The Depletion Wall, attempts to answer. It is the second book of the Waves of the Future Series.

It bring us up to date on the latest mineral reserve data and statistics, and years of supply (available at the website above). It also examines model simulations to see what would happen to the world economy when shortages of non-renewable resources begin to occur.

The site states that the supply “of non-renewable resources can be counted in years and decades, not centuries” and that if we do nothing, this could lead to disaster.

The main web page for this book is the above, but the main website outlines an environmental strategy that could increase resource conservation and prevent acute mineral shortages as well as deal with other issues like global warming, toxic chemicals and contaminants, renewable resources…

The environmental approach relies on creating a green economic environment (the GEE) which would change the incentive structure of the private sector and the economy to foster resources conservation, greenhouse gas reduction, toxic contaminant elimination, etc.

Detailed information can be found at the websites above. The following blogs offer press releases and blurbs regarding the above.

Global Warming Strategies & Environment: Cap-and-Trade, Cap-and-Restructure, Renewable Energy, Carbon Emission Trade … (Book I of the strategy, press releases, reviews)

Looking for Cost-Effective Environmental Strategies: Green Economic Environment… (blurb about the strategy, components and summary)

The Depletion Wall: Minerals, NonRenewable Resources, Population Growth, and Economics of Poverty… (blurb about Book II on the problems of exponential growth and prospects of economic crisis around the middle of this century)

Global Warming Solutions and Policies, Innovative Environmental Strategies…(another blog on press releases regarding this strategy)

Green Cost-Effective Strategies & Solutions for the Environment, Global Warming, Toxic Contaminants (another blurb about the strategy itself).