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- noun neologism One who believes that the
peak oil point is approaching.
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Examples
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The Malthusian movement has expanded with time into a kind of peaknik diaspora.
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While it's worth observing that "peaknik" has typically referred to Peak Oilers, I think it's safe to say that we're all peakniks now.
Energy Bulletin - 2009
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This is an edited transcript of Bill Moyer's speech, delivered June 3 at the Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C. Posted by peaknik at
Bill Moyers: The Mugging of the American Dream peaknik 2005
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This is an edited transcript of Bill Moyer's speech, delivered June 3 at the Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C. Posted by peaknik at
Archive 2005-06-01 peaknik 2005
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But I clearly have peaknik tendencies, even though I have no eschatological leanings.
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The peaknik movement has moved on from its obsession with oil and -- like the peacenik movement of yore -- split into a multitude of factions, each warning of the impending catastrophic consequences of one form of peakonomics or another.
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