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Witness the popularity of disaster movies and of peak-oil theories.
The Fantasy of Survivalism Virginia Postrel 2011
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On top of this we hear about financial meltdowns; impending oil shortages and peak-oil arguments; avian flu cases on the rise; acts of domestic and international aggression; civil unrest; etc -- the list goes on.
Kingsley Dennis, Ph.D.: Our Social Crises -- From Breakdown to Breakthrough Ph.D. Kingsley Dennis 2011
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PFC's Mr. West reckons that many investors have "mistakenly" bought into the peak-oil theory, which holds that the world is nearing the peak in oil production.
Energy Power Shifts From the West Liam Denning 2011
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However, that official peak-oil resolutions been passed at all is a sign that various awareness campaigns around this issue have worked.
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However, that official peak-oil resolutions been passed at all is a sign that various awareness campaigns around this issue have worked.
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For years, analysts and journos like Jim Kunstler, myself and others have been ringing the peak-oil alarm, not to show the rest of our consumerist fantasyland that we are smart, or that we have data that it doesn't, but to argue that there is no such thing as a free ride.
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He wrote, "Like many Malthusian beliefs, peak-oil theory has been promoted by a motivated group of scientists and laymen who base their conclusions on poor analyses of data and misinterpretations of technical material."
Tara Lohan: Can You Survive Life After Cheap Oil? It May Be Time to Find Out 2009
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Whatever the timing of the arrival of peak oil's actual peak, there is growing agreement that we have, at last, made it into peak-oil territory, if not yet to the moment of irreversible decline.
Tara Lohan: Can You Survive Life After Cheap Oil? It May Be Time to Find Out 2009
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In any case, the financial free-for-all was not the only cause of the crisis, which was triggered by high oil prices due not only to the OPEC oligopoly but also to the approaching peak-oil.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009
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The United States, having reached the internal peak-oil in the 1970s, imports more than half the oil it consumes.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009
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