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Peak oil means the maximum level of production that will ever be reached. Peak oil does not cause any decline, it's rather being past it that necessarily means experiencing a decline from that peak level.

Now, maybe your question was if the decline will be due to climate change or to scarcity. At the moment, I'd say hardly any decline can be attributed to climate change fighting, except in countries that have either heavily taxed carbon emission (Sweden), or strongly subsidised alternative energy production.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi

by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 at 06:30:52 AM EST
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I meant decline of 'western civilisation'.
by njh on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 at 05:03:38 PM EST
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