The Death of Peak Oil (at least for now)

[Yo_Mama]

16. Excellent post. It's a complex problem.

Aside from the factors you mention, I think the problem is a narrowed network of contributors. There were many arguing different perspectives, but they got frozen out of the discussion and a remarkably wrong consensus emerged.

Then, once the consensus was used to make money, it hardened and broadened, and there was a political element as well.

The roots of this are indeed in human psychology, but the reality is that many human problems nowadays are of similar complexity.

Widening the group of discussers in an especially interdisciplinary fashion and creating alternate reward systems might help.