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April 23, 2012

China's Faith-Based Approach to Peak Oil

Shi & Zhang, China Dialouge


Fortune

In recent years, Chinese scholars have been embracing “peak oil” theory in increasing numbers. The idea – first put forward by American geophysicist MK Hubbert in 1949 – is that individual oil fields, oil-producing regions. . .

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