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Despite Cheap Gas, Coming Back to Peak Oil [Infographic]

By Erik Curren | November 21, 2015

cheap gas

Yesterday, in Virginia, I filled up my gas tank for $2.75 a gallon. At that price, even old peak oilers like my wife and I hardly think about poor old King Hubbard's theory much these days. And though gas has been cheap in the U.S. for the last six months or more, I still think Hubbard was right that global oil production naturally has a point of peak … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: infographic, M. King Hubbert, peak oil

How Pope Francis’s climate encyclical is liberating the world

By Lindsay Curren | June 23, 2015

In my life there are two things that have the effect of at least somewhat isolating me from others. The first is being a writer on climate change, peak oil, and the economic crises bound up with those modern predicaments. The other is being a Christian environmentalist. In the first case, my essays, as well as my social media presence, fairly well run counter to the whole … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: #PopeEncyclicalSeries, climate change, global climate disruption, peak oil

Inspiration for the burned-out localizer

By Erik Curren | June 1, 2015

Richard Heinberg

While Marx predicted that socialism would follow capitalism, Richard Heinberg predicts the next thing will be localism. "All roads appear to lead eventually to localism; the questions are: how and when shall we arrive there, and in what condition? (And, how local?)," Heinberg writes in his latest book, Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels. (We received a review copy of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: climate change, economic crisis, peak oil, relocalization, Richard Heinberg, secession

With ten billion coming, sustainable is not enough

By Richard Reese | March 30, 2015

crowd

Stephen Emmott is a chief techno-wizard at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. His brilliant young scientists are doing research in complex natural systems. Their objective is to invent miracles. They want to program ordinary cells to perform photosynthesis, so we can produce food from sunlight, without plows and seeds. Agriculture can't feed ten billion. The goal is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: climate change, Microsoft, overpopulation, peak oil, Stephen Emmott

If solar has gotten so cheap, why isn’t there more of it?

By Erik Curren | February 27, 2015

Some people who worry about peak oil like to point out that renewable energy won't save us. That is, given the amount of fossil fuels that the world uses today, it would take an unrealistically large increase in the amount of renewables available now to make up the difference as oil, natural gas and coal start to deplete. So we might as well resign ourselves now to a future … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: peak oil, solar growth, solar power

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