We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if…

I feel that society is ignoring me. Whatever I say, whatever I do, I feel like everyone is covering their eyes and ears to…

— Joana L

I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars…

— Tim Hecker

The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce our vulnerability…

— Richard Heinberg

“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources, and .…

— Bill Mollison

So far in facing this huge [peak oil] challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on…

— Madeleine Bunting

Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is…

— Richard Heinberg

There is a major problem of unsustainability of our environment, and we're seeing it in our natural resources, peak oil is probably upon us,…

— Edgar Mitchell

Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to…

— James Howard Kunstler

Regardless of how you feel about peak oil or global warming, the increased use of natural gas is a positive thing because it is…

— Robert Bryce

...More important than the deficit, more important then healthcare-more important than anything-we have got to do something about our energy strategy. Because if we…

— William J. Clinton

The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past social regimes-is…

— Richard Heinberg

Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago),…

— Matthew Simmons

Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen,…

— Andrew Nikiforuk

Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy of supply,…

— Richard Heinberg