2019: Peak (Western) Civilization
2019: Peak (Western) Civilization
According to the plot of the movie, The Matrix, robots had won the war on humanity and put each and every one of us into a virtual reality prison; taking our minds back to the “peak of our civilization, 1999”. Based on the data published by the Energy Institute just recently, the Wachowskis were jus...
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Oh wow. I remember people sounding the alarm about "peak oil" in the '70s and '80s.
Weird that no one talks about it now that it's happening.
Some bloggers still do. But most people are energy blind, so they fail to see its significance.
But even fracking is on its last legs, yes. And seems the first bottleneck is diesel and bunker fuel, since tight oil is so light while the fracking rigs burn a lot of diesel per unit extracted.