Peak Oil in the Spotlight

Part 4 in a series that puts Humanity's Crossroads Crises in Perspective

Peak Oil in the Spotlight has been published at EnergyShifts.net

This chapter explores the world’s energy and mineral dependencies and probes whether industrialised civilisations could comprehensively transition away from fossil fuels. The implications of a peak oil scenario are explored with geopolitical developments placed within this context.

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Essay segments:

• Introduction

• Our Energy Dependencies

• Energy and the Economy

• Periodic Energy Interruptions

• An Easy Enemy

• Introducing Peak Oil

• Background Understanding

• Recurring Peak Oil

• Products Made from Oil

• Peak Oil’s Groundhog Day

• Energy Return on Investment (EROI)

• End of an Era

• Future Scenario Planning

• Peak Oil: “The Final Verdict”

• Abiotic Oil

• Unknown Unknowns

• Implications of Peak Oil

• Reinforced Dependencies

• The Energy Expansion

• Introducing Peak Minerals

• Contraction Economics

• Towards a More Natural Order

• Looking for Off-ramps

• The Hierarchy of Crises

• Navigating the Challenges

• Towards Decentralisation

• Recalibration Required

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By J.J. Montagnier

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