A geopolitical tsunami: Beyond oil in world civilization clash

Oil as the cheap energy source has stoked industrial society for a century. However, ominous signs of oil depletion are beginning to appear, in fulfilment of M. King Hubbert


…In this paper from an investigation of the causes and the context of the general overall trend of rising oil prices, we will further consider their implications in a post globalization, and post AngloSaxon world, which is fragmenting along civilization fault lines, threatening worldwide civilization clash in a newly configured multipolar world.

History, current changing world circumstances and dwindling energy-resource supplies suggest that the oil-fired industrial age will prove to be short lived. The bell curve below shows the levels of historic and prospective oil production over two millennia. This graph substantiates the assertion that the life expectancy of Industrial Civilization is around 100 years