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There is "peak oil" as the basic geophysical concept, which is perfectly fine. There is also "peak oil" as the prophecy of imminent collapse of industrial civi
by philipkglass 7y ago
There is "peak oil" as the basic geophysical concept, which is perfectly fine.
There is also "peak oil" as the prophecy of imminent collapse of industrial civilization, which was a much bigger thing a decade or so ago. It may still have some loyal believers.
I think that people unfortunately have the means to extract far more oil than we have the means to safely burn in Earth's atmosphere.
- pault 7y agoI can confirm. My mom is susceptible to internet fear mongering and got on some "peak oil" forums back around 2005. Many of them wanted you to believe that things were going to spiral out of control and that rioting and food shortages were imminent. Of course they could go back and say that they never said that explicitly, but the implication was there and it was clearly meant to scare the shit out of you. It seems that there's a certain type of person that secretly wants society to fall apart because they think it will solve all of their social and financial problems. I'm not sure they've thought it through very well.