There was a time when oil and gas reserves seemed endless…
- Recent Shell advertisement
1965 was an incredibly significant year for modern civilisation. Because, although this fact went largely unremarked for three decades, it was the year in which our rate of crude oil discovery stopped rising and began to fall. It was the year of [...]

Several years ago, an artist who didn’t appear at Live Aid pondered on the ways in which we expected the world to come to an end, and proposed another:
When you compute the time between an event and the nostalgia for the event, the span seems to be about a year less in each cycle. Eventually…the [...]