Richard Heinberg and Tina Clarke "Adapting to the 'New Normal' in the Post Growth Era"

A Farm For The Future (BBC)

Matthew Simmons "The 51st State: Peak Oil Denial"

Richard Heinberg "The End of Growth." (Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2012)

How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

Matthew Simmons "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Oil Shock"

Some Thoughts on Abiotic Oil.

By Gene Ogorodov

Opponents of the Peak Oil Theory invariably turn to Thomas Gold's Abiotic Oil Theory which proposes that oil (and all other hydorcarbons) are not by products of bio-matterial. Rather, the theory suggests, oil is a naturally occurring carbon byproduct of the earth's mantle. Other than a chemical experiment at Carnegie Mellon that produced natural gas under conditions that mirrored the earth's mantle, I have no idea what to make of the theory. Gold might be right, but the conventional explanation might also be correct. Eventually scientific experimentation will show the world a likely answer. 

However, the ambiguity of the origin of oil should not give one hope that the Hydrocarbon Age will last forever. The crisis of Peak Oil is not that there will be no more oil in the future, but that current rates of consumption are unsustainable. Considering that since the early 1980's the world has consumed more barrels of oil per year than it discovered necessitates that the fears of over consumption are true. 

Matthew Simmons "Oil and Gas - The Next Meltdown?"

Jeff Rubin "Oil and the End of Globalization" (Signature Lecture)

Jeff Rubin "End of Growth: How to Achieve a Truly Sustainable Future."

Robert Hirsch "Peak Oil: Exploring the Risk Factors"

A High-Risk Barrel (2005)