July 18, 2008
Colleges Should Reimagine Themselves in an Oil-Scarce World
Some years ago, bringing up peak oil — the concept that oil production will crest and then decline, leading to all sorts of trouble in society — might have made you seem like the kind of person who frequents Web sites that sell survival books and freeze-dried food.
Today such discussion has pretty much hit the mainstream. Last month The Wall Street Journal featured a front-page story about two prominent geologists arguing over how much oil is left in the
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