NZ Greens Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons Full Speech: “Picnic for the Planet 2005”: "This speech by Jeanette Fitzsimmons, co-leader of the New Zealand nation Greens Party, is surely the most forceful and clear description of Peak Oil given by any politician anywhere in the world to date. (Not I suppose that there is much competition yet.) She says 'the end of cheap oil is coming towards us with the force of a tsunami and New Zealand is not ready.' Acknowledging Peak Oil seems difficult for any politician, even Greens party members accross the world, because it means acknowledging and challenging some the most fundamental economic doctrines and modern cultural assumptions of perpetual growth, while making it very difficult to promise a better, or at least more convenient, world."

NZ Greens Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons Full Speech: “Picnic for the Planet 2005”: "This speech by Jeanette Fitzsimmons, co-leader of the New Zealand nation Greens Party, is surely the most forceful and clear description of Peak Oil given by any politician anywhere in the world to date. (Not I suppose that there is much competition yet.) She says 'the end of cheap oil is coming towards us with the force of a tsunami and New Zealand is not ready.' Acknowledging Peak Oil seems difficult for any politician, even Greens party members accross the world, because it means acknowledging and challenging some the most fundamental economic doctrines and modern cultural assumptions of perpetual growth, while making it very difficult to promise a better, or at least more convenient, world."