Energy and Public Health: The Challenge of Peak Petroleum

AUTOR(ES)

Frumkin, Howard

FONTE

Association of Schools of Public Health

RESUMO

Petroleum is a unique and essential energy source, used as the principal fuel for transportation, in producing many chemicals, and for numerous other purposes. Global petroleum production is expected to reach a maximum in the near future and to decline thereafter, a phenomenon known as “peak petroleum.”

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