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Peak oil

January 2023

  • Colin Campbell

    Other lives
    Colin Campbell obituary

    Other lives: Exploration geologist for companies including BP and Amoco concerned with the energy constraints posed by ‘peak oil’

July 2014

  • A Palestinian boy plays in the rubble of a home wrecked in an Israeli air raid on Beit Hanoun, Gaza

    Earth insight
    IDF's Gaza assault is to control Palestinian gas, avert Israeli energy crisis

    Nafeez Ahmed: Israel's defence minister has confirmed that military plans to 'uproot Hamas' are about dominating Gaza's gas reserves

June 2014

  • A businessman tries to break through a line of Occupy Wall Street protesters who had blocked access to the New York Stock Exchange area in November 2011.

    Earth insight
    The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy

    Nafeez Ahmed: The man who trained more than 66 countries in open source methods calls for re-invention of intelligence to re-engineer Earth

  • Ministry of Defence building

    Earth insight
    Defence officials prepare to fight the poor, activists and minorities (and commies)

    The self-defeating logic of militarised social science targets anti-capitalist 'extremists' in the new 'age of uncertainty'

    • Earth insight
      The inevitable demise of the fossil fuel empire

    • Earth insight
      US shale boom is over, energy revolution needed to avert blackouts

    • Earth insight
      Exhaustion of cheap mineral resources is terraforming Earth – scientific report

May 2014

  • Thailand coup

    Earth insight
    Thailand militarisation is symptom of accelerating global system failure

    Nafeez Ahmed: Crippling fossil fuel dependency, climate volatility, rocketing debt levels are propelling protests, radicalising the state

  • An oil field over the Monterey shale formation in California

    Earth insight
    Write-down of two-thirds of US shale oil explodes fracking myth

    Industry's over-inflated reserve estimates are unravelling, and with it the 'American dream' of oil independence

  • #BringBackOurGirls protest outside the Nigerian consulate in South Africa.

    Earth insight
    Behind the rise of Boko Haram - ecological disaster, oil crisis, spy games

    Nafeez Ahmed: Islamist militancy in Nigeria is being strengthened by western and regional fossil fuel interests

April 2014

  • Members of Occupy Wall Street celebrate after learning they can stay in Zuccotti Park in New York

    Earth insight
    Five pathways to post-capitalist 'renaissance' by a former oil man

    Nafeez Ahmed: 'Capitalism is torpedoing our prosperity, killing our economies, threatening our children. It must be re-engineered, root and branch.'

March 2014

  • North Sea oil rig in a storm

    Earth insight
    Ex govt adviser: "global market shock" from "oil crash" could hit in 2015

  • Douglas Gordon: The End of Civilisation - video

    Earth insight
    Did Nasa fund 'civilisation collapse' study, or not?

  • Tony Blair leaves the Iraq war inquiry

    Earth insight
    Iraq invasion was about oil

  • A large gathering of protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street Movement in 2011.

    Earth insight
    The global Transition tipping point has arrived - vive la révolution

February 2014

  • A pro-European protester swings a metal chain during riots in Kiev

    Earth insight
    Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels

    Nafeez Ahmed: From South America to South Asia, a new age of unrest is in full swing as industrial civilisation transitions to post-carbon reality

January 2014

  • An oil refinery in Canada

    Earth insight
    US Army colonel: world is sleepwalking to a global energy crisis

  • Farmland Tapped For Oil In The Midwest

    Sustainable business blog
    New research points to risk peak oil presents to business

December 2013

  • BP

    Earth insight
    Former BP geologist: peak oil is here and it will 'break economies'

    Nafeez Ahmed: Industry expert warns of grim future of 'recession' driven 'resource wars' at University College London lecture

November 2013

  • Person using petrol pump

    Earth insight
    Imminent peak oil could burst US, global economic bubble - study

    Nafeez Ahmed: Major industrial sectors are at risk without a swift transition to a more resilient, post-carbon economy

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