Servigne, Pablo, Raphaël Stevens, and Andrew Brown. _How Everything Can Collapse: A Manual for Our Times_. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA: Polity, 2020. # Progressive Summary # Key Points ## Peak Resources > A peak is the moment when the extraction rate of a resource reaches an upper limit before declining inexorably. - Half of the twenty leading oil-producing countries, representing three-quarters of world production, have already crossed their peak. - In the 1960s, for every barrel consumed, 6 new ones were discovered. Today, the world consumes 7 barrels for every barrel discovered. Other resources are following the path of oil. A study of 88 non-renewable resources suggests that there will be a high probability of a permanent shortage of them by 2030. (http://theoildrum.com/files/Increasing%20Global%20Nonrenewable%20Natural%20Resource%20Scarcity%20-%20Draft.pdf) # Oppositions # Questions / Comments # Quotes