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Whispers of the Fall<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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It\u2019s been sixteen years now since I first started posting these weekly essays to the internet. Though I didn\u2019t originally intend them to focus on the crisis of industrial society, that theme was impossible for me to evade, and I soon gave up trying; there was too much that had to be said about the future of our age, and too few people were saying it.\u00a0 Over the years that followed, I watched (and joined in) the peak oil movement as it rose and fell, watched (and kept my distance from) the parallel movement of climate change activism as it rose and fell, watched (and dealt in my own life with some of the consequences of) the slow twilight of America\u2019s global empire and the vaster twilight of Western civilization as a whole\u2014and all of those got discussed in blog posts.<\/p>\n

<\/figcaption>I sometimes get asked by readers what happened to all the fuss about peak oil, and now and again someone brings up one of the other topics I\u2019ve talked about over the years and wonders what\u2019s up with those. A glance back over those four themes thus seems appropriate just now. Partly, a retrospective look is a useful thing from time to time, and partly\u2014well, we\u2019ll get to that.<\/figure>\n

We can start with peak oil.\u00a0 Starting in the middle years of the twentieth century, a handful of petroleum geologists began to point out that building a civilization on the breakneck extraction and consumption of nonrenewable fossil fuels would have an awkward downside once the fuels began to run short. Their concerns were brushed aside by almost everyone else.\u00a0 When the United States\u2014the first nation on earth to start extracting oil commercially…<\/p>\n

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Whispers of the Fall It\u2019s been sixteen years now since I first started posting these weekly essays to the internet. Though I didn\u2019t originally intend them to focus on the crisis of industrial society, that theme was impossible for me to evade, and I soon gave up trying; there was too much that had to […]<\/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":[3,4,5],"tags":[141,15417,617,694,821,827],"class_list":["post-62601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","tag-climate-change","tag-ecosophia","tag-peak-oil","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62601","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=62601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62602,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62601\/revisions\/62602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}