"The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption……" — Richard Heinberg
"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 they do, competition for what remains will trigger dramatic economic and geopolitical events; in the end, it may be impossible for even a single nation to sustain industrialism as we have know it in the twentieth century."
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Richard Heinberg
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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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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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...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to…
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