Climate Quotes by Richard Heinberg

What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices.

— Richard Heinberg

If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals…

— Richard Heinberg

Today, it is especially difficult for most people to understand our perilous global energy situation precisely because it has never been more important to…

— Richard Heinberg

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

Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the…

— Richard Heinberg

As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its…

— Richard Heinberg

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

We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts…

— Richard Heinberg

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

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

When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of…

— Richard Heinberg

The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce.…

— Richard Heinberg

All of the easy oil is gone and what's left is requiring more energy and money and this has an effect on everything. Our…

— Richard Heinberg

If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can…

— Richard Heinberg

Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with.

— Richard Heinberg