d worldwide production of conventionally extracted oil could ‘peak’ and go into terminal decline before 2020 and that there is a ‘significant risk’ that global oil production could begin to decline in the next decade.

d worldwide production of conventionally extracted oil could ‘peak’ and go into terminal decline before 2020 and that there is a ‘significant risk’ that global oil production could begin to decline in the next decade.


Population dynamics invariably have large implications for the demand for food and water, expected to increase by 50 and 30 per cent respectively by 2030.


even at current growth rates, it will take the average Asian seventy-seven years to reach the income of the average American: the average Chinese needs forty-seven years and the Indian 123 years.