Why is peak oil politically incorrect?

But climate change and fossil fuels are not in competition with each other: they are two sides of the same coin. Most of the solutions proposed to fight global warming, higher efficiency, renewable energy, etc. are also solutions for the problem of fossil fuel depletion. But that is not always the case; for instance switching to coal to counteract oil depletion would worsen the problem of global warming. No matter how one sees the situation, the relation of depletion and climate change is complex and both issues must be considered and understood if we want to do something serious to manage the situation. For, instance, the IPCC may have badly overestimated the amount of fossil fuels available in their scenarios (see the recent paper by Kjell Aleklett energybulletin.net/29845.html). So, we should try to avoid that the growing popularity of global warming will overshadow the question of peak oil to the point that the latter disappears from the media and from collective consciousness.

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