Sentences with phrase «beyond peak oil»

And that danger stretches well beyond peak oil — everyone who wants to make the world a better place would do well to remember that the future is not yet written.

Deteriorating Oil and Food Security (pdf) Introduction The Coming Decline of Oil The Oil Intensity of Food The Changing Food Prospect Cars and People Compete for Food The World Beyond Peak Oil Food Insecurity and Failing States Chapter 2 Data (xls) 3.

Although global warming will certainly be bad in itself, the likely prospect of beyond peak oil will compound the situation drastically, with little help to reducing forcings and the rate of global warming.

What I find ironic is that it is his can - do optimism that is in this case working against our ability to do something about our dependence on fossil fuels and the climate change that this dependence is resulting in, that is, switching to alternate energy, preserving modern civilization and the world economy beyond Peak Oil and Peak Coal, preventing climate change from becoming such a huge problem that it destroys that the world economy — and more than likely leads to a series of highly destructive wars over limited resources.

2050 takes us about 40 years beyond Peak Oil.

Not exact matches

In the face of manifest climate change, the imminence of peak oil and peak natural gas, the increasing extinction of species, the pollution of the oceans and their consequent dead zones, and the population of the world continuing to grow, to see our pattern of consumption beyond our basic needs continuing... well it's quite disheartening.

Theoildrum.com has grown far beyond just talking about peak oil.

After moving back to the UK to complete his doctorate, Rob decided to take the Peak Oil preparation process beyond the classroom and into the community.

It is possible — and from a climate change point of view even desirable — to have a peak in global oil demand in the foreseeable future, but this will require measures that go well beyond what is being implemented today.

We've already covered the launch of the Transition Handbook last week, celebrating this significant next step in the story of Transition Towns — the community based response to peak oil and climate change that is sweeping the UK and beyond.

Oil production peaked around 4 - 5 days, which is normally when I wash my hair, and then did not increase beyond that.

They point out that increased material wealth has not necessarily brought greater happiness, and they argue that more human - scale communities can improve our daily lives in many ways that reach far beyond adaptation to peak oil.

(See also see Chapter 2, «Beyond the Oil Peak,» Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, available for free online.)

I think I am up to 14,000 posts of TheOilDrum.com (tech central for Peak Oil), a chapter in «transport Beyond Oil» (Island Press), Millennium Institute, etc..