There is no time left to debate peak oil.

Linked here is a long speech full of bad news for you and me. Read it anyway. It took 30 years to end the debate about the reality of global warming. It is real. Newt Gingrich, George Will and the rest of the right wing fantasyland brigade were - as always - wrong.

We do not have 30 years to argue over the reality of oil depletion. As addiction and denial are the closest analog for our collective behavior around cheap energy I quote the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The idea that somehow, someday he will control and enjoy his drinking is the great obsession of every abnormal drinker. The persistence of this illusion is astonishing. Many pursue it into the gates of insanity or death.

From the imaginary book Oil Addicts Anonymous the quote would read: The idea that we will be able to forever have the lifestyles we created on massive amounts of cheap oil is the great denial mechanism of every oil junkie. The persistence of this delusion is astonishing. Whole societies of oil junkies pursue this fantasy past the point of no return: creating war, causing environmental destruction, and inviting complete societal collapse.

Read the speech.