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The exposure of food distribution to shocks in the form of (amongst other things) fuel shortages is examined in Helen Peck, “Resilience in the Food Chain: A Study of Business Continuity Management in the Food and Drink Industry”, report to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs July 2006, which concludes, “The fundamental problem is that it is the very efficiency of the nation’s food and drink supply chains, under normal circumstances, that make (sic) them so vulnerable under abnormal ones”, p xvii, available at http://tinyurl.com/37a8w39 . Lessons from the fuel transport drivers’ strike in the UK in 2000 are drawn in Glenn Lyons and Kiron Chatterjee, eds. (2001), Transport Lessons from the Fuel Tax Protests of 2000; see also Lyons and Chatterjee, “Coping with a Crisis”, Association for European Transport, 2001, available at www.abstracts.aetransport.org/paper/download/id/1299 ; and Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada, Incident Analysis: Impact of September 2000 Fuel Price Protests on UK Critical Infrastructure, 25 January 2005, available at http://tinyurl.com/35hwy77 .

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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