peakism

English

Etymology

From peak +‎ -ism, where "peak" refers to peak oil.

Noun

peakism (uncountable)

1. The belief that the world has reached peak oil.
   • 2015, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Peak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture, page 18:

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

   • 2015, Richard Heinberg, Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels:

     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.

   • 2015 November 4, Scott McLemee, “Past Its Peak”, in Inside Higher Ed:

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

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