"If we do nothing, we still get to……" — 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, we can have a world that supports robust communities of healthy, creative people and ecosystems with millions of other species."
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14 Quotes by Richard Heinberg
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Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency…
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Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only…
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Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and…
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We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind,…
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