“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.” KnowsMayEndsEnergyNationsImpossibleEconomicCenturyEventsResourcesRemainsCompetitionEnvironmentalDramaticQuantityConsumptionTwentieth CenturyTriggersCivilisationScarceGeopolitical Book:The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies Source: The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
“Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere. ... We don't often tend to think about the social sciences (history, economics and politics) as subcategories of ecology. But since people are organisms, it is apparent that we must first understand the principles of ecology if we are to make sense of the events in the human world.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldShouldFirstsHumansSocialPrinciplesStudyEventsEconomicsEnvironmentalMake SenseOrganismsEcologyRealisedSocial ScienceBiosphere Author:Richard Heinberg
“...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North American natural gas extraction rates already in decline. These events will have enormous implications for America's petroleum-dependent food system” EndsAmericaNaturalEventsRateProductionsOilEnormousErasDependentGasDeclineImplicationsNatural GasPetroleumExtractionOil Production Book:Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines Source: Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
