R. V. Scheide

Society

Past the Peak

How the small town of Willits (California) plans to beat the coming energy crisis

August 12, 2005

Gas Pains: Summer fuel prices a portent of the crisis that’s here

Heinberg and others who subscribe to the peak oil theory… believe that once the peak is crossed, the supply of oil will be outstripped by demand, and our petroleum-based industrial civilization, with no other plentiful cheap energy source readily at hand, will inevitably collapse. The only question is how hard the fall will be.

May 24, 2005

Oil Gone

If peak oil theorists are correct, our dependence on oil is not only foolish, it’s lethal. Does modern civilization have just two choices–change or perish?

June 8, 2004

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