After finishing the first edition in 2005, many new developments in the energy field
have emerged which necessitates some additions and modifications to my book “The
Nuclear Imperative – A Critical Look at the Approaching Energy Crisis”. Several new
books have also been written that address the threats to our society when oil runs
out. One new book written during the US election campaigns of 2008 was titled
“Physics for Future Presidents” by physics professor Richard A. Muller of UC-Berkeley.
Because new government administrators and presidents tend to have much influence
on national energy policy, I have expanded the subtitle of my book in this second edition
to “More Physics for Presidents”, hoping new presidents worldwide will inform
themselves of at least what I wrote in Chapters 1, 2, and 9. By “presidents”, I mean
here to include all decision-makers in our societies, whether future (i.e. young students)
or present, liberal or conservative, corporate or government, Christian, Islamic,
Buddhist, Hindu, or other, and whether European, Asian, African, or other ethnicity.
Our planet Gaia does not care, as long as mankind keeps it healthy.