and he also tried to build public awareness of the issue, which included lecturing extensively. He addressed a committee of the British House of Commons, and officials from investment and automotive companies. He appeared in the documentary films The End of Suburbia, Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, and Peak Oil – Imposed by Nature. Personal life Campbell resided in Ballydehob, a small town in South West Cork, Ireland with his wife Bobbins. He died at his home in Ireland on 13 November 2022, at the age of 91. Quotes "But this peak has no real great significance, it is the perception and the vision of the long decline that comes into sight on the other side of the peak. That's really what matters." (speaking on the peak oil phenomenon, from End of Oil (2005)) "It's quite a simple theory and one that any beer drinker understands. The glass starts full and ends empty and the faster you drink it the quicker it's gone." (on peak oil, in 2007) "Banks had been lending more than they had on deposit assuming that tomorrow's growth was collateral for today's debt but failing to see that growth depends on growing, cheap, oil-based energy...So in short, Peak Oil means that debt goes bad." (speaking on the 2008 crash at the New Energy Era Forum, 8 May 2012) See also Kenneth S. Deffeyes Jean Laherrère Thomas Malthus, and the Malthusian catastrophe. Dale Allen Pfeiffer References Further reading Dire prophecy: as prices soar, doomsayers provoke debate on oil's future, by Jeffrey Ball from The Wall Street Journal, volume 244, number 57, 21 September 2004. The end of cheap oil, by Colin J. Campbell and Jean H. Laherrère. Scientific American, March 1998. The Coming Oil Crisis, by Colin J. Campbell. Independent Publishers Group, 1 April 2004. . The Truth about Oil and the Looming Energy Crisis, by Colin J. Campbell. (booklet; no ISBN) Peak Oil Personalities, edited by Colin J. Campbell. Inspire Books, 25 September 2012. . External links Arrival of Peak Oil as an Historic Event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaiHXt1AtO0' (Sept. 2009 video interview with Colin Campbell by Dave Bowden, Oil Education TV / SustainableMedia.net) Peak Oil: Off Limits to Government & Industry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSrxwO6i0A4' (Sept. 2009 video interview with Colin Campbell by Dave Bowden, Oil Education TV / SustainableMedia.net) Peak Oil – A Turning Point for Mankind (video lecture) by Dr. Colin J. Campbell, at the Clausthal University of Technology,