5 December 2008 - The next 100 months represent a unique period for humanity. On numerous fronts, the consequences of the past 150 years of rapid industrialisation are all simultaneously coming home to roost.
Our relentless fossil fuelled economies are now being halted by the immovable facts of geology. Although no one is talking about oil and gas ''running out'', we now realise that just as energy demand is exploding across the globe, our ability to annually increase production is peaking, and must inevitably decline, with what remains being dirtier, harder to extract and much more expensive.
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