All Richard Heinberg Quotes
- Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy of supply, and… Alternative
- Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not… Billions
- 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… Best
- 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 to… Blind
- 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 authoritarian… According
- What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices. Economy
- If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that… Achieve
- Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with. Economic
- The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When… Based
- When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of usable… Account
- Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere.… Apparent
- We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts or… Adjust
- ...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North… America
- 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 have… Bleak