Category Archives: By People

Ugo Bardi: Quite likely we’ll have a fast collapse, a “Seneca Cliff”

Posted on July 16, 2013 by

Excerpts from: Ugo Bardi. August 28, 2011. The Seneca effect: why decline is faster than growth. Ugo Bardi. July 15, 2013.The punctuated collapse of the Roman Empire. Could it be that the Seneca cliff is what we are facing, right … Continue reading →

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Paul Chefurka: A really nasty oscillating decline, wirth steep falls & desperate partial recoveries

Posted on July 15, 2013 by

“Approaching the Limits to Growth” is the name of my site, given before I was convinced we were already at the limits. I now recognize that we are past them, and that there was really no way to avoid ending … Continue reading →

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Doug Tompkins, founder of The North Face & Pumalin NP in Chile

Posted on July 13, 2013 by

Article 1  Jimmy Langman. Spring 2012. Conversation: Doug Tompkins. Earth Island Journal. I see Chile as overdeveloped. We have gone way past the carrying capacity of Earth to sustain all these people, activities, and consumption. Using all government measurements, nobody … Continue reading →

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Summary of Hirsch & Bezdek 2005 DOE Peak Oil study

Posted on August 27, 2012 by

A summary of: Hirsch, R. L., et al. February 2005. Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, mitigation, & risk management. Department of Energy. The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an unprecedented risk management problem. … Continue reading →

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Hirsch predicts Oil Shocks by 2017, panic, and stock market crash

Posted on July 13, 2012 by

I believe oil shocks could lead to a FAST CRASH Robert L. Hirsch was the author of the first US government report on peak oil in 2005, which recommended taking action to mitigate Peak Oil at least 20 years before … Continue reading →

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Gail Tverberg (Gail the Actuary)

Posted on July 8, 2012 by

Gail the Actuary at ourfiniteworld.com and theoildrum.com writes outstanding columns on peak oil and finance. There are so many graphs that I’m not going to summarize all of this article, you need to read it!  Most people assume that lower … Continue reading →

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Nicole Foss Podcasts and Miscellaneous

Posted on July 8, 2012 by

Nicole Foss, at theautomaticearth.com, writes about the intersection of Peak Oil and the economic system. Podcasts Nicole Foss – How I Prepared My Home for Peak Oil Harvard recently wrote a study that got a lot of coverage and convinced … Continue reading →

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Die-off: several predictions of when and how bad will it be

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

Friedemann: it’s said that if fish were scientists the last thing they’d discover was water — it’s so ubiquitous and taken-for-granted that it’s not visible.  In the same way, oil permeates every tiny detail of our life support, from transportation, … Continue reading →

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Bakken Shale and U.S. Oil Production

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Roger Blanchard. 26 Dec 2011. ASPO-USA peak oil newsletter On Sept. 25, 2011 National Public Radio’s All Things Considered program had a segment consisting of what I considered highly questionable information concerning oil production in the Bakken Shale region of … Continue reading →

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When will the decline of oil begin, at what rate?

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

If the German Peak Oil report is correct, once investors believe oil production is declining, that will be the end of the stock market, since growth can no longer occur and debts be repaid.  The financial system is precarious enough … Continue reading →

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