Peak Oil | Grist

Is the global oil tank half-full, is it half-empty … or are we running on fumes? 1
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago In his article in the New York Times Sept. 24, “Oil Industry Sets a Brisk Pace of New Discoveries,” staff reporter Jad Mouawad cites oil discoveries totaling 10 billion barrels for the first half of 2009.
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A civilizational tipping point 5
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
In recent years there has been a growing concern over thresholds, or tipping points, in nature. The social tipping points that lead to decline and collapse when societies are overwhelmed by a single threat or by simultaneous multiple threats are not always easily anticipated.
“We have to leave oil before oil leaves us.”

World’s top energy economist warns peak oil threatens recovery, urges immediate action 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Dr. Fatih Birol, chief economist of the International Energy Agency tells the world to wake up: peak oil is here.
The (Re)Making of a Petro-State

Will Iraq be a global gas pump? 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
In a world of shrinking energy reserves, is Iraq finally fated to become what it was going to be anyway, even before the chaos and catastrophe set in: a giant gas pump for an energy-starved planet?
How about... "prosumer"?

Stop calling Americans “consumers” 6
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
James Kunstler says we should stop calling Americans "consumers." It pigeonholes all Americans and also becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Our Oil Obsessed Civilization

The oil intensity of food 0
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Today we are an oil-based civilization, one that is totally dependent on a resource whose production will soon be falling. This prospect of peaking oil production has direct consequences for world food security, as modern agriculture depends heavily on the use of fossil fuels.
End of the fossil-fuel era

90 months and counting 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
With the clock running in the climate change countdown, post-Enlightenment faith in technological fixes may not be enough.
Has Obama saved Detroit from itself — or is that simply impossible? 1
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
You’re all gonna own a part of GM, so please, fellow owners, let me know what you think!
Trouble at home

Why Obama’s bank bailout could be bad for the environment 6
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
The Obama bank bailout presumes a rosy scenario for "toxic" assets. That means the administration is essentially betting a mountain of public cash on a revival of suburbia.
Non-OPEC production has likely peaked, oil output could fall by 30 million bpd by 2015 5
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Good to the Last Drop

Umbra on peak oil 6
Posted 2 years, 11 months ago