Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
We live in a finite world, and we are reaching limits in many ways – easy to extract oil is being exhausted, fresh water is in increasingly short supply, and climate change caused by human activity is becoming more of an issue. Because of these constraints, it is likely that economic growth will stagnate and eventually decline. [Transcript of a talk]
Ice shrink in Arctic sea may attract oil firms
Antarctic ice shelf collapses
Land deal could open Alaska wildlife refuge to oil
Bangladesh fighting back against climate domination by rich nations
Swiss-Iran energy deal angers U.S.
Iraq oil animation from populist Hightower
Lofty pledge to cut emissions comes with caveat in Norway
Climate change ‘is accelerating’ :Aggreko
Code Red interview (transcript)
Rise in US utilities carbon emissions
China building a multi-ethnic empire in the west
Chinese fuel shortages spreading to big cities
White House sets long view on oil
Make oil a public utility
Into the economic abyss
Truckers ‘going broke’ and threatening to strike
‘You’re working for gas now’
Oil firms ‘in liquidation,’ says Simmons
Yergin and Hubbert on same side in ’79
Jamais Cascio: Peak oil vs. global warming
Krassimir Petrov talk: Fundamentals of PO
The slide in Mexico continues
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– A Week to Remember
– Decoupling
– Diesel
– Energy Briefs
Twenty years ago this month, I interviewed Marion King Hubbert at his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Hubbert was a brilliant and opinionated man. If he were alive, he would no doubt be fascinated by the quadrupling in oil prices and the increasingly vigorous discussion of peak oil.
Until recently, there has been a constant refrain to the effect that Western economies seem undeterred by higher oil prices. Demand destruction does not seem to be taking place within OECD, even at today’s high numbers.
Are we merely experiencing a cyclical, albeit once-in-a-blue-moon event that will resolve itself in lower prices for all the commodities that make our modern society possible … or are we facing a long-term struggle for the declining resources of the globe, a struggle that will potentially endanger our lives and completely transform our society?
