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 to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption. — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
