one reader's book reviews

Regarding the tension between politics and science, Herman Daly says this in his September '08 Scientific American article, in the Economics in a Full World:

In choosing between tackling a political impossibility and a biophysical impossibility, I would judge the latter to be the more impossible and take my chances with the former.

Herman Daly is co-editor of an anthology on ecological economics, Valuing the Earth, including the classic essay The Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin.

The Wikipedia article on Peak Oil has a list of books, some of which appear on this Amazon list by one R. Hutchinson.  James Howard Kunstler (of The Long Emergency) and I would call Mr. Hutchinson a cornucopian.