Peak-oil activist approach for the coming change in culture

Peak oil is something to heed more today than ever, no matter where crude oil and gasoline prices go or what they may do to oil consumption. Peak-oil awareness has risen greatly in recent years, but this has not resulted in wide understanding of energy in our fast changing world of mounting crises and distractions. Even among those knowledgeable about peak oil there is confusion about energy and oil, based on old assumptions. Kinds of peak-oil awareness can be based on levels of knowledge or worldviews — some of which are seen as obsolete in the last several months:


The unpleasant truth of US society’s waste and excess has been widely known since the 1960s, when the