Peak oil

Authors of Transport Revolutions tell Eve Savory they foresee radical social and political changes as the world’s oil supply dwindles

If one accepts that climate change could be catastrophic for many ecosystems, including the multiple ones humans inhabit, what could possibly be considered more critical, more demanding of our full attention, right now?

The mother of all asteroids intersecting with our planet’s orbit? All-out nuclear war? Aliens?

Well, try “peak oil” (put simply, the point at which the rate of global oil production begins to decline).


Peak oil has “the imperative of urgency,” according to Richard Gilbert, an urban-issues consultant based in Toronto.

“The likely outcome of not dealing with this issue is not an environmental catastrophe. It’s an economic and social catastrophe that may leave us unable to deal with the environmental catastrophe,” he said in an interview.

CBC