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What Exactly is Peak Oil?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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PHOTO: Paul M. Walsh\/AP\/SHUTTERSTOCK<\/div>\n

I could go on and on about acceptance for probably weeks if not months, but today’s article isn’t about acceptance. Today’s article is about energy and resource decline, one of the symptom predicaments of\u00a0ecological overshoot<\/a>\u00a0and what is commonly referred to as\u00a0Peak Oil<\/i><\/b>. I have mentioned both energy and resource decline and peak oil many, many times in this blog but have never written an article specifically to address exactly what it is. I came across\u00a0a publication from Stuart McMillen<\/a>\u00a0that makes the topic of Peak Oil easy to understand since it is in comic form. This provides a better explanation than a long-winded blog post because it equates peak oil with something fun – a roller coaster!<\/p>\n

Maybe I should try more analogies that include fun things to describe and\/or explain overshoot. The roller coaster actually isn’t too bad a description. My office manager calls overshoot by the name\u00a0trebuchet<\/i><\/b><\/a>.\u00a0<\/b>She described the action or motion of the sling as that of overshoot, taking the name quite literally. She also uses the term derogatorily when I bring up the subject of overshoot, saying, “We’re not going to talk about trebuchets…” From my perspective, there is absolutely nothing wrong with discussing overshoot or any of its symptom predicaments such as peak oil or climate change. In fact, I robustly\u00a0encourage<\/i><\/b>\u00a0discussion of the predicaments we face. How else is the general public supposed to understand what is actually happening? Attempting to avoid discussing it won’t make it go away or reduce the consequences, so there is absolutely no benefit in\u00a0not<\/i><\/b>\u00a0talking about it. I’m rather passionate regarding talking about it, precisely because I think the conversations are very worth having and because I’d like more people to understand the situation more completely.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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What Exactly is Peak Oil? PHOTO: Paul M. Walsh\/AP\/SHUTTERSTOCK I could go on and on about acceptance for probably weeks if not months, but today’s article isn’t about acceptance. Today’s article is about energy and resource decline, one of the symptom predicaments of\u00a0ecological overshoot\u00a0and what is commonly referred to as\u00a0Peak Oil. I have mentioned both […]<\/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":[31189,617,31180],"class_list":["post-67899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-erik-michaels","tag-peak-oil","tag-problems-predicaments-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67899","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=67899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67900,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67899\/revisions\/67900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}