Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
During the run up in oil prices in summer 2008, the idea of peak oil began to gain broader traction. Peak oil — when aggregate oil extraction reaches its peak and begins a terminal decline — will spell the end of the oil-based economy and infrastructure. In response to this peak, increasing prices will necessitate […]
by Lucas Adin Among the most reliably contentious issues in the policy arena of late is the topic of global warming and the measures that must be taken to abate it. Worldwide, the specter of melting icecaps, withering crops, and inundated coastal cities grips the attention of even those only loosely familiar with the mechanics of the […]