TEOTWAWKI 5: Peak Oil

This episode of the TEOTWAWKI specials, we're focusing on every
crazed doom-prepper's favourite scenario for the end of the world
- Peak Oil.

Our society runs on oil and petroleum products (sadly, still).
These fossil fuels are the fossilised remains of plants and
animals that died millions of years ago, and they take tens of
thousands of years to form. So it seems to be a perfectly
reasonable assumption to make: one day, we are going to run out
of fossil fuels, and we will need renewable forms of
energy. 

But what if we run out of fossil fuels before transitioning to
renewables? What if surging oil prices, and steady demand, causes
us to pursue more and more dangerous and environmentally unsound
methods of extraction? What could the consequences of our
dependence on oil be, and how can we hope to get around
it? 

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