"When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a……" — Richard Heinberg
"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 energy is transferred from one level to the next. ... Thus herbivores will account for a much smaller fraction of the biomass [than plants] and the carnivores for a still smaller fraction."
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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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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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