National Library - Peak Oil awareness metric

About a couple of years back, I could barely find myself a copy of Richard Heinberg's The Party's Over at one of the National Library branches here. The catalog system said it was available but it wasn't on the shelf, and the librarian had to literally hunt high and low to help me find the book.

Yesterday, I did a search for Matt Simmons' book, Twilight in the Desert and found 22 copies all over various branches. Now that's a lot. I promptly went to borrow one. And right now, out of these 22 copies, 15 are either already on loan (have been borrowed) or are reserved (see below) :

Well. National Library book borrowing as a Peak Oil awareness metric? Perhaps. Why not. Based on this, there should be more people out there who are aware. I know of at least 4 or 5 other Singapore peakoilers, so I'm hardly the only one. There should be at least dozens more, I think. But I do wonder, what do *they* think? Are they in shock? In denial? Planning to "bug out"? Or, like at least one of them I know, "bugged out" already? Or are some of them, like myself admittedly, thinking, "Go long on Oil! Gas! Uranium! Buy! Lemme at 'em!", lol.

Just wondering.

(2006-06-02 14:53:57 SGT) [Musings] Permalink

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