Oil Production Peaks this Thanksgiving?
Here’s a transcript of a recent talk given by Princeton geosciences professor Kenneth Deffeyes. Basically, using Hubbert’s methodology (which predicted the peak of domestic oil production in the 1970s), he has determined that the global oil production peak will happen this year.
Perhaps some deus ex machina technology or discovery will swoop in and prevent us from having to care about how much our lifestyles are dependent on cheap energy–but it’s worth thinking about how the world will change if that doesn’t happen.