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The world has never faced a problem like this. Without massive mitigation more than a decade before the fact, the problem will be pervasive and will not be temporary. Previous energy transitions (wood to coal and coal to oil) were gradual and evolutionary; oil peaking will be abrupt and revolutionary.
— U.S. Energy Department, in a 2005 report on “Peaking of World Oil Production,” as reported by Joseph Romm on Salon.
