{"id":190,"date":"2006-01-13T12:51:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-13T10:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=190"},"modified":"2006-01-13T12:51:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-13T10:51:36","slug":"peak-oil-the-definitive-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Peak Oil &#8211; the definitive article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well that&#8217;s what I intended to write anyway, seeing as its a particular interest of mine (I&#8217;ve just learnt that qualifies me as a Peaknik), and there&#8217;re lots of misinformed ideas out there. But I&#8217;ve decided to save myself the stress of trying to do what others can do much better, and post a few useful links instead \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>From Kuroshin, with great comments too<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuro5hin.org\/story\/2006\/1\/11\/23344\/7099\">Peak Oil: The next big thing &#8211; Part 2<\/a> (with great comments)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuro5hin.org\/story\/2005\/7\/8\/213958\/1869\">Peak Oil: The next big thing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From Alternet<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/30640\/\">2006 &#8211; the year of the oil collapse<\/a> &#8211; an over-the-top apocolyptian viewpoint predicting global wars<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alternet.org\/story\/30654\">Planning for the peak<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alternet.org\/story\/30653\">Over the peak<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From George Monbiot<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monbiot.com\/archives\/2005\/12\/06\/worse-than-fossil-fuel\/\">Worse than fossil fuel<\/a> &#8211; biodiesel, the most carbon-intensive fuel on earth?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monbiot.com\/archives\/2005\/11\/29\/how-much-energy-do-we-have-\/\">How much energy do we have?<\/a> &#8211; a negative view of the ability of renewables to provide for energy needs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monbiot.com\/archives\/2005\/12\/05\/the-struggle-against-ourselves\/\">The Struggle Against Ourselves<\/a> &#8211; changing our behaviour to use less energy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From Wikipedia &#8211; don&#8217;t forget to use the history, as many of these are in the midst of edit wars.  They also contain a great set of further resources.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peak_oil\">Hubbert Peak Theory<\/a> &#8211; are you a peaknik and\/or a Doomer?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Implications_of_peak_oil\">The Implications of Peak Oil<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alternative_fuel\">Alternative fuel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Renewable_energy\">Renewable energy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well that&#8217;s what I intended to write anyway, seeing as its a particular interest of mine (I&#8217;ve just learnt that qualifies me as a Peaknik), and there&#8217;re lots of misinformed ideas out there. But I&#8217;ve decided to save myself the stress of trying to do what others can do much better, and post a few&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=190\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peak Oil &#8211; the definitive article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-social","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}