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Published January 2007 | public
Journal Article

The end of the world as we know it

Abstract

It took the Earth and the Sun hundreds of millions of years to produce the world's petroleum — in 150 years we've used up nearly half of it. With worldwide oil consumption rapidly expanding, we are already burning up 25 billion barrels a year. We will soon start to run out of oil.

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© 2007 Nature Publishing Group.

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