The production of the smaller non-OPEC reserves has peaked, and is in decline. Within ten years, OPEC will be the world's primary source of oil. The Persian Gulf is the home of most of the remaining oil. Several nations in the Gulf are assumed to have nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. The Netanyahu regime in Israel is doing anything but promoting peace in the region.
Population growth is explosive in the Gulf, while government deficits and unemployment grow.
None of the Gulf countries can grow enough food to feed itself, and all are losing land to desertification. All of them have shortages of fresh water. The sooner stability breaks down, the sooner the final oil crisis will begin. L. F. Ivanhoe is the president of Novum Corporation, and he has 50 years of experience in oil exploration. The momentum of population growth and resource consumption is so great that a collision course with disaster is inevitable.