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…

— Richard Heinberg

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

— 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…

— Richard Heinberg

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

— 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…

— Richard Heinberg

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

— Richard Heinberg

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

— 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…

— Richard Heinberg

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

— Richard Heinberg

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

— Richard Heinberg

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

— 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…

— 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,…

— Richard Heinberg

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

— Richard Heinberg

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's…

— Richard Heinberg

...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in…

— Richard Heinberg

When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.

— Richard Heinberg

It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet…

— Richard Heinberg