Three things you shouldn’t miss this week Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels – From South America to South Asia, a new age of unrest unfolds as industrial civilisation transitions to post-carbon reality. UK oil and gas production in terminal decline? Offshore production by field: http://crudeoilpeak.info/uk-peak The Energy Transition Tipping Point is Here – The economic foundations for fossil fuel investment collapse as the business case for renewables builds. Diplomatic efforts are underway to diffuse tensions between Russia and the West following the overthrow of Ukrainian President Yanukovych. Should tensions escalate, one risk is the disruption of gas supplies from Russia to Europe via the Ukraine. A standoff between Russia and Ukraine following the Orange Revolution saw gas supplies disrupted in both January 2006 and early 2009. Europe is now better placed to […]