“Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.” WorldYearsHumansGrowthKnownHappenedPlantPopulationProductionsTolerateAutomobilePopulation GrowthPower PlantsHuman PopulationGrasshoppers Author:M. King Hubbert
“History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.” HumansPastScienceTermHistoryEventsObservationHypothesisPresent DayPast Events Author:M. King Hubbert
“It is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population, for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with the use that is made of energy resources.” WorldHumansMadeUseEnergyResourcesFortunePopulationEvidentRenewable EnergyHuman Population Author:M. King Hubbert
“Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the second crossing the first, another person on examining these marks can tell unambiguously which was made first and which second, because the latter event irreversibly disturbs its predecessor. In virtue of the fact that most of the rocks of the earth contain imprints of a succession of such irreversible events, an unambiguous working out of the chronological sequence of these events becomes possible.” IfsFirstsHumansPersonsMadeTwoFactsEarthSciencePrinciplesHistoryVirtueRocksEventsDependsMarkHistoricalWork OutLatterWetPlatesClaySequenceSuccessionCrossingsExaminingPredecessorsIrreversibleChronologyScribes Author:M. King Hubbert
“The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-growth situation. Our culture is built on growth and that phase of human history is almost over and we are not prepared for it. Our biggest problem is not the end of our resources. That will be gradual. Our biggest problem is a cultural problem. We don't know how to cope with it.” KnowsHumansEndsProblemCultureEnergyGrowthSituationKnow HowHappenedResourcesBuiltPreparedPhasesCurvesHuman HistoryAbnormalSteepAlmost Over Author:M. King Hubbert
