{"id":17360,"date":"2016-02-03T21:36:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T02:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17360"},"modified":"2016-02-03T21:36:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T02:36:54","slug":"whatever-happened-to-peak-oil-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17360","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened to Peak Oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whatever Happened to Peak Oil?<\/a><\/h3>\n

A few months from now, this blog will complete its tenth year of more-or-less-weekly publication. In words the Grateful Dead made famous, it\u2019s been a long strange trip:\u00a0\u00a0much longer and stranger than I had any reason to expect, certainly, when I typed up that first essay and got it posted on what was still, to me, the alien landscape of the blogosphere.<\/p>\n

Over the years since that first tentative post, the conversations here have strayed into some remarkably odd territory:\u00a0\u00a0the history of apocalyptic ideas, the nature of magic, the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, and a good deal more.\u00a0\u00a0All through its vagaries, though, this blog\u2019s central focus remains what it has been since shortly after its 2006 launch: the difficult but necessary task of facing up to the end of the\u00a0\u00a0arrival of hard limits to growth, and the collapse of all those fantasies of perpetual progress that so many people today still use to keep themselves from thinking about the future ahead of us.<\/p>\n

That said, my longtime readers may be wondering about the relative absence in recent posts of one of the core themes of this blog\u2019s earlier days. Yes, that would be peak oil.<\/p>\n

For those who\u2019ve come to this blog recently, it maybe helpful to point out that this simple phrase refers to a complicated concatenation of ideas. First, despite claims made by rap musician BoB and the few other flat-earthers out there, I think most of us are aware that the Earth is a sphere a little more than 7900 miles across. That means, among many other things, that the Earth contains a finite amount of petroleum\u2014and this in turn means that each barrel of petroleum that gets pumped out of the ground brings us closer to the point at which there\u2019s no more left.<\/p>\n

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Whatever Happened to Peak Oil? A few months from now, this blog will complete its tenth year of more-or-less-weekly publication. In words the Grateful Dead made famous, it\u2019s been a long strange trip:\u00a0\u00a0much longer and stranger than I had any reason to expect, certainly, when I typed up that first essay and got it posted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3463,1758,617],"class_list":["post-17360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-archdruid-report","tag-john-michael-greer","tag-peak-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17361,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360\/revisions\/17361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}