Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Of course, the methods for human population control are enormously controversial. One contraceptive measure seems to be humane and acceptable: If you teach calculus… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
This much is certain... No initiative put in place starting today can have a substantial effect on the peak production year. No Caspian Sea… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war,… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
Once supply begins to dwindle, the years to follow will see shortages that at best will cause global recession, possibly worse than the 1930s… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground, — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
