Unsustainability Now!
What will happen when an unsustainable system attempts to keep running as if the resources necessary for its continuation still existed?
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Jeremy Leggett: “Make no mistake, this is an energy civil war”
No matter who’s right in the peak oil debates, there has always been easily enough oil and gas, combined with coal, to wreck the climate and bring down civilisation.
10 Years After ‘The Party’s Over’: an interview with Richard Heinberg
While in the US recently Richard and I pulled up a chair under a tree in his garden and chatted about his book The Party’s Over.
Ten Years After
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of my book The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, which has seen two editions and many printings, translations into eight languages
The propaganda campaign against peaking fossil fuel production
The two major threats to the continued viability of the fossil fuel industries (in our current economy) are decreased public demand for their products and a decreased ability to supply them.
Peak Oil Review – Nov 4
A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, China, Quote of the Week, The Briefs, In Memoriam
US will always remain a crude oil importer
US shale oil has so far replaced 2 mb/d of its crude oil imports which peaked at around 10 mb/d in 2005. If this effort can be doubled the US would still need to import around 6 mb/d.
Peak Oil Review – Oct 28
A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, China, Brazil, Quote of the Week, The Briefs
Why governments are blind to fossil fuel energy risk
Having courted economic Armageddon in the financial sector, might we be capable of repeating the trick in the energy sector?
My answer is a resounding yes. We are doing so. On multiple fronts.
Peak Oil Review – October 21
A weekly reivew including Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, China, Quote of the Week, The Briefs
Peak oil headlines
•U.S. oil supply looks vulnerable 40 years after embargo •Why governments are blind to fossil fuel energy risk •Fuel Choice for American Prosperity [Report] •UMD Researchers Address Economic Dangers of ‘Peak Oil’
Fossil Fuel Euphoria: Hallelujah! Oil and Gas Forever!
This movement from gloom about our energy future to what can only be called fossil-fuel euphoria may prove to be the hallmark of our peculiar moment.