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Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy…
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Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context,…
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The real problem is that we use too much oil. It's that simple and that difficult. If we truly want to reduce…
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The idea that we industrialized humans are immune to the natural laws that have restrained growth in other species-and humans in past…
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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…
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What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices.
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If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely…
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Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with.
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The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to…
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When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to…
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Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest…
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We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of…
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The extraction of oil, coal and minerals brought, and still brings, a cost to the environment.
— Bono
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead…
— Unknown Author
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A key impact of recent events was a very persistent, if not permanent shock in the oil supply. This was caused as…
— Michael Kumhof
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A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that…
— William J. Clinton
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You're an actor who's Irish, not an Irish actor. And you shouldn't be limited by your extraction.
— Cillian Murphy
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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
— Rudolf Carnap
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...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in…
— Richard Heinberg
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My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
— Joan Collins
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Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human…
— Eleanor Catton
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
— Adam Clarke
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Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.
— Sylvia Earle
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