If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition,… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
