George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. November 19, 2009. The challenge of feeding 7 or 8 billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It'll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn't going to happen.
Terry Macalister, The Guardian. November 12, 2009. Warning of a deliberate underplay at the International Energy Agency of a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.
Matthew McDermott, TreeHugger. November 11, 2009. Apparently the IEA was concerned that reporting the true reserve numbers would trigger a buying panic.
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. September 24, 2009. The great age of renewable energy is in our distant future. Before then, energy prices will rise, environmental perils will multiply and conflict will grow. Buckle your seatbelts.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. September 17, 2009. Could you get by without your car, food from outside your community, your job? There's a bunch of folks who want to show you how.
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. June 12, 2009. The era of plentiful oil is drawing to a close, and a new era of economic peril, rising starvation and environmental disaster is born.
Shaun Chamberlin, Chelsea Green Publishing. April 6, 2009. We have officially entered the post-oil age in which the transition to lower energy lives is inevitable.
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. December 21, 2008. Until this year's report, the International Energy Agency mocked people who said that oil supplies might peak. Now they've changed their tune.
James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. December 2, 2008. The economy may go back up, but the decline in oil production can't be stopped. Does the president-elect know this?
James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. May 22, 2008. There's a great wish for American finance to return to business-as-usual happy days of high profits, but there's just too much debt to swallow.
Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. April 10, 2008. The peak oil problem will not "destroy suburbia" or the American way of life. Only unrestrained emissions of greenhouse gases can do that.
Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. August 18, 2007. Buckle your seatbelt and fill up your gas tank. Our oil future is likely to be a bumpy ride toward cliff's edge.
James Howard Kunstler, AlterNet. April 4, 2007. Kunstler argues that the coming age of energy scarcity will change everything about how we live in this country -- most of all our dependency on automobiles.
James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. February 10, 2007. The best way to feel hopeful about our looming energy crisis is to get active now and prepare for living arrangements in a post-oil society.
