Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: Whatever happened to the idea of starting an antinuclear activism group? [View all]FBaggins
(28,678 posts)It certainly isn't the case that "peak oil has already happened" is a generally accepted fact.
Heck... AGW is generally accepted and we still get plenty of threads discussing it... but would it survive as an active group?
I think it's just that there isn't a sizeble enough population here interested in that as an ongoing active forum (as opposed to occasionally seeing a related piece here or in GD). OTOH, I miss the daily drumbeat posts here and go there to pick them up... but there's hardly ever any conversation about it.
On edit - BTW, I'm not doubting that the concept of peak oil is well established. It's irrefutable. But there's significant and legitimate reason to doubt that the peak has already occured (even with recent spin revising earlier claims). I remember debates I had years ago on TOD with some of the regulars insisting that it's now well established that peak natural gas in the U.S. is long-gone. We now know for certain that they were dead wrong. That doesn't mean that there will never be a peak in natural gas... it just means that attempts to pin it down were overly pesimistic.