| Energy
Oil production is today at its peak, and will start to contract at some time in the next few years. At the same time, driven by a growth-based economic model, global demand for energy is expanding rapidly. The consequences can be terminal for mankind: global economic meltdown, resource wars, and the decimation of populations across Earth. And yet mankind traipses on, blissfully unaware.
| | Date | Title | | January 2005 | The Coming Crisis The inability of petroleum supplies to meet worldwide demand for energy in the future requires that other sources of energy come online soon if global economic chaos is to be averted and the survival of humanity ensured. | | January 2005 | Oil: Demand & Supply The central reality is that the world is running out of oil. The facts all point to a conclusion we are ignoring at our peril. | | January 2005 | The Energy Profit Ratio (EPR) As petroleum reservoirs become rarer and depleted, extraction starts to cost more and the comparative EPRs of alternative sources start to look more attractive. |
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