Vilken framsida föredrar du? Which book cover do you prefer?

 

In a few months this book will be published in Swedish, later this year an English edition is to be released too. The titel: A world addicted to oil.

Author is Professor Kjell Aleklett at University of Uppsala, whom I have had the pleasure to help with well over one hundred illustations. Both för the books and his lectures across the world.

Now my question is, which cover would make you to stop and pick up the book and hopefully glance through it for a moment?

Om ett par månader kommer denna bok ut på den svenska marknaden, en engelsk version kommer senare under hösten, titel på den blir A world addicted to oil.

Författare är professor Kjell Aleklett vid Uppsala universitet, där han bedrivit forskning kring oljan och dess viktiga del av vårt vardagliga liv och inte då enbart som ett drivmedel. Min roll har varit att hjälpa Kjell med dryga hundratalet illustrationer, som inte enbart används i boken utan även på hans föredragsturnéer runt om i världen.

Min fråga nu är: vilket av dessa omslag skulle få dig att stanna upp och förhoppningsvis plocka upp boken för att ögna igenom några sidor?

CO2, Sverige och resten av världen.

Kjell Aleklett, professor emeritus vid Uppsala universitet skriver just nu på slutkapitlen i sin nya bok med titeln "En värld drogad av olja".
Han har väldigt noga följt den senaste Klimatkonferensen COP21 i Paris, som kommer att behandlas i ett kapitel i slutet av boken.
Igår onsdag, på Kjells blogg finns det mycket intressanta siffror på hur liten del av det totala utsläppet av CO2 som vårt land står för.
Häpnadsväckande, med tanke på de ramaskrik som ofta hörs i debatten här hemma, så är siffran så låg som 0,12% av det totala utsläppet av koldioxid.
Att Kina stoltserar allra högst är inte förvånande, inte heller USA:s andraplacering, men att avståndet mellan dem var så stort förvånar mig.
Glädjande, i mina ögon och öron, är att EU med sina 28 medlemsländer "bara" svarar för ca två tredjedelar av vad USA släpper ut. Indien, Ryssland, Japan följer.
De 16 länder som förorenar mest står för hela 81% av alla utsläpp på vårt jordklot, resterande drygt 180 länder för resterande 19%. Bland dem vårt eget land.

Boken kommer också i en engelsk och en spansk utgåva senare under 2016, rykande färsk, med allt om de senaste årens ganska dramatiska kast i oljevärlden, med framför allt prisfallet som alla undrar hur länge det skall bestå.
Skifferoljan har drabbats hårt av detta och flera företag i USA som borrar i North Dakota och Texas har tvingats avsluta eller har gått/går i konkurs.
Något som Kjell också tar upp i sin bok.

Läs boken, kommer snart i en bokhandel nära dig.

Another cartoon, this time about oil...

What Kjell Aleklett and his science-group UGES at Uppsala University has been trying to tell us for years.
Oil, crude, tight, light or whatever - oil is a resource that will be harder to find, more costly and there are less and less places to search for it.
So better prepare yourself, we are soon on the plateau when the demand overtakes what´s in the pumps.
I made this sketch for Kjell, when we tried to find a suitable illustration to one of his chapters in the second edition of Peeking at Peak Oil.
Yesterday I found it, and think it´s very illustrative to the topic.

Peak oil is here. Please read what I as a layman have to say

There is no doubt about it, Peak Oil is here to stay, wheather we like it or not, and most of us, like me, don´t like it. 

I have been fortunate enough, as an illustrator, to work very closely to one the front scientists in the field of geology - Professor Kjell Aleklett of Uppsala University here in Sweden. 

If you look to the right column in this blog of mine, there is a short notice about the book Kjell wrote and I illustrated "Perhaps the most important book written this century", big words but not so exaggerated as it might sound. 

The book Peeking at Peak Oil is based on the research that Kjell and his group Uppsala Global Energy Systems (UGES) did over a period of almost ten years at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and later at the Department of Earth Sciences.

Amazon will be glad to send you a copy, because you better realise the fact that Peak Oil is here to stay. And all of us must do the best to prepare ourselfs.

And to make things even more convincing, you must read this in the British newspaper The Guardian. The former BP geologist Dr Richard G. Miller describes very clearly the present situation and where we are heading tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

A BP geologist speeking out, it´s almost unbeliavable.

Please allow yourself the time to read the article, because it is important for everyone to understand the facts and reality. 

A reality that most, if not all, politicans and economists all over the world are trying to hide, bury in the sand or cover up, because if they let it up to the surface, the economy will immediatly react on the negative side. 

Some sort of panic will spread for the moment. And whom want that to happen?

No one, me neither. And not you.

Therefor it is vital that we slowly adopt to the fact - that the peak is here - so it doesn´t come as a complete surprise.

Prepare yourself by first reading this article in the Guardian and then follow it up by reading the book Peeking at Peak Oil. 

There is not domesday tomorrow, there is no horse and carriage tomorrow, still being on the tableland or plateau we will slowly start our journey downhill, not very steep, but slowly downhill.... 

This is one of the illustrations in the book Peeking at Peak Oil. 

Let me ask you one question, a very simple question; why do you think they drill for oil at the same depth as the height of Mount Everest and why do you think they are, even if there is a strong opposition to it, hoping to drill in the Arctic?

Because there is "no easy" oil to be found, like it was in the mid 1900´s. 

And shale oil and gas is not the answer either, even if it to some degree replaces the loss of crude oil.

In the US in particular. 

Many experts say the opposite, but there are facts that point the other way. 

OK, now you have met the serious Olle, everything in life is not easy....