http://peakoil.com/consumption/dancing-on-the-grave-of-peak-oil-will-it-stay-buried In my November 2007 column, Peak Oil Again?
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By Eivind Berge. Original post here. 
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In an exclusive new essay, political scientist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed presents a dramatic picture of the world we're about to leave behind, and the new possibilities ahead. He argues that the age of Carbon is coming to a close, and only a concerted effort can prevent an impending crisis on a global scale.
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Transition Towns empower residents to produce and consume more of life's essentials where they live, all while minimizing their reliance on fossil fuels.
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For those who don’t have the time to spend 2 hours watching a talk by this yesterday’s man, here is a shorter video with far more interesting and revealing opinions:
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In Crash on Demand, permaculture co-founder and futurist, David Holmgren updates his Future Scenarios and calls for practical and immediate action.
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Nafeez Ahmed: Major industrial sectors are at risk without a swift transition to a more resilient, post-carbon economy (Peer-reviewed academic survey indicates that oil production will peak by 2030, substantial risk it'll be before 2020.
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By Eivind Berge. Original post here.
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“In Mexico nothing happens, until it happens.” This is an old proverb here, and it can also easily apply to the current situation. Everything feels tranquilo and smooth, as if it is nothing out of the ordinary. However, as history shows us, once something begins in Mexico, it generally develops rapidly, and can end up being intensely spectacular.
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Diminishing returns from oil and other resources combined with the lack of a workable alternative, both in transition and end use, endanger our future economy
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Humanity’s strength is in groups. In fact, It is our way of cooperating and communicating together in small and large groups that has allowed us to become a dominant form of life on Earth.
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The long-term implication of peak oil is that when oil production peaks and begins to decline all of this increased societal complexity that comes from replacing human and animal muscle power with fossil fuel energy will have to move back in the direction of our pre-petroleum living arrangements. We will not be able to sustain the level of societal complexity that exists now.
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A new multi-disciplinary study led by the University of Maryland calls for immediate action by government, private and commercial sectors to reduce vulnerability to the imminent threat of global peak oil, which could put the entire US economy and other major industrial economies at risk.
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