Kenneth S. Deffeyes, emeritus professor of geology at Princeton University, former researcher for Shell Oil, and author of When Oil Peaked and Hubbert’s Peak: the Impending World Oil Shortage, joins ZOOM’D to offer a candid assessment of oil and energy realities in the world today—and coming tomorrow. In Hubbert’s Peak and Beyond Oil, Ken laid out a rationale for why world oil production would continue to follow a bell-shaped curve, with the peak occurring in 2005. Ken sees no reason to change his prediction, despite the global recession and oil price volatility. Continued depletion of oil fie
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