Watch "Motorville," a Tale Of Oil Addiction Told Through Animated Digital Maps
Artist Patrick Jean brings industrial civilization's monster to life.
Artist Patrick Jean brings industrial civilization's monster to life.
For all intents and purposes, peak oil is here right now. Of course, that statement has alternatively been laughed off and become the focus of intense doom-saying over the last few decades. Oil companies shrug it off—we'll drill deeper and better and…
The logic that anchors peak oil is beyond simple—there's a finite amount of the black stuff, and we'll eventually run out of it. The question of when, precisely, we'll hit bottom is the matter of intense speculation, and for good reason. No substance…