Reasonable people can quibble regarding when oil supplies will run out. But it
is certain they will - the major uncertainty is whether the World's atmosphere,
land, water and oceans will be so damaged that ecosystem sustainability will be
impossible. The exploration, production, transport, refinining and consumption
of oil is THE underlying cause of looming global ecological armageddon. Our
rainforests, climate, water supplies and oceans have been hammered by
societal addiction to a seemingly wonderous substance that in truth is killing the
Earth. Author Richard Heinberg argues in a new book that "the oil-consumption
party is over". I concur that transitioning the global society to renewable
energy is the challenge of our time. Failure will mean famine, ecological
collapse, war and misery.