Class Notes on Peak Everything

Class Notes on Peak Everything

The main fact in the book: peak oil. This peak refers to the moment in time when oil has its highest point of extraction, and then it will decline.

Many other things besides oil will also peak, too, soon, because we use oil for everything and it’s correlated with those things. Coal, natural gas and oil: non-renewable…energy source…FOSSIL FUELS

“World is overwhelmingly dependent on oil” (1)

Other countries depend on wind power? The US? [find evidence]

Author – Heinberg – blames humans? “we humans have polluted our environment…” “localized devastation” (21) [meaning: chaos/destruction to specific area] – “if we don’t solve these problems, our species be in no position whatever on other fronts” (20-1)…climate change and resource depletion …climate change affects ecologies…animals and plants (north pole, Caribbean) get hurt, get depleted, they are resources (food, etc)…


(21): “as oil grows scarcer, further wars..almost assured.” war

Post-oil society might be happier? [chart: satisfaction with resources]

Water, food, etc



Global warming / climate change


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Our ideas

Blackouts, everyday electricity use
Examine developing countries
Is life without electricity a regression? Can one be happy without it?

Check OUT:

The CEOs of oil companies talking about peak oil, cheap energy, and expensive energy:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/575837/as_oil_majors_chime_in_the_reality.html