Peakism

Quick meaning: Peakism is a noun meaning The belief that the world has reached peak oil.

Meaning

The belief that the world has reached peak oil.

Example Sentences

Peakism has been called a sort of Left Behind for liberals, and apocalyptic sects are known, after all, for proving remarkably resilient.

Specifically, peakism is marked by many of the same characteristics of recognized ideologies, including internal coherence, intellectual abstractness, specificity, sophistication, dogmatism, and affective investment.

Peak oil bashing is not entirely the province of the petroleum industry: a very few leftist writers have argued that peakism is a conspiracy covertly organized by the industry itself to talk up prices (and profits) through invoking a false anticipation of scarcity.

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Related dictionary entries include peakist, pejorism, declinism, eschatologism, maximism, epochism.

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