Peak Generation

History repeats itself: food riots are breaking out across the poorer nations, the Middle East is in turmoil and Brent crude has passed the $100 mark – 2011 is opening just like 2008 did.
It was a significant year in terms of the global economy: social unrest around the world over a spike in the cost of staple foods, and the runaway price of oil that eventually triggered the worst global economic crash since the Great Depression. While...

Were the Egyptian people that bravely took to the streets to overthrow a tyrannical regime taking part in the world’s first peak oil revolution?
It seems like out and out hyperbole at first. Hosni Mubarek ran the country in a permanent state of emergency in which he blocked free speech, intimidated anyone perceived as a threat, and operated a blatantly corrupt system that left millions of Egyptians...

Wikileaks may have told us what we already knew – that Saudi oil reserves are greatly inflated – but the reports also portray leaders of the highly secretive petro-state feeling “under the gun” as they strive to move their economy...

It started with a glut of freelance work, followed by a bout of soul-searching about the blog that could have been confused with acute laziness. . . essentially I’ve taken a four-month vacation from writing here.
Yeah, paid work comes before Peak Generation every time. I owe that to my wife and children. (And right now I’m about to launch my own communications business, while working full-time and pulling in whatever freelance work I can get.) But I just...