I’ll just address one point, the mining of minerals for solar panels. The lifetime for solar panels is at least 20 years. As soon as fossil fuels are burned, more fossil fuels need to be mined. First Solar claims to already have technology for recycling their panels that recovers 90% of the materials.

Points and responses like this are probably being repeated many times in different social and news media as well as in everyday conversations. IMHO, a top priority for humanity is building a global platform to merge these various forums, fact check and deduplicate claims, and aggregate sentiment expressed towards proposed solutions, to strengthen the signal out of all of the noise. This platform could become a form of collective terrestrial intelligence, which is desperately needed.

I would be in favor of a diffy.chat online bot that could contribute real-time fact checking, as long as it identified itself each time it responded to a post.

Maybe 2025 will bring an open source and decentralized global platform that can fact check, merge, deduplicate, and aggregate multiple online discussion forums into a shared graph representation that will be able to report on which topics are being discussed by the most people, what sentiment is expressed about proposed solutions to problems, and how that sentiment changes over time. It could become a form of collective terrestrial intelligence, CTI.

Peak Oil will be solved by the same actions that are needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; transition to solar, batteries, and EVs.