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Richard Heinberg, born in 1950, is a renowned journalist and author known for his work on energy, environment, and social issues. His writings focus particularly on the peak oil theory and the future of sustainability.

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“The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.”

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Author:Richard Heinberg

“Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy of supply, and the percentage of energy returned on the energy invested in energy production, none currently appears capable of perpetuating this kind of society.”

“Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems.”

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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 to reduce our vulnerability to high prices, the best way to do so is to reduce consumption.”

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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 in past social regimes-is to me so self-servingly blind as to be morally reprehensible.”

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“What's new is high oil prices and the economy hates high oil prices.”

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“...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”

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Book:Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

Source: Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

About the Author

Born: 1950
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 19

Books & Sources

Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil FuelsRelated source material

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic RealityRelated source material

The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial SocietiesRelated source material

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of DeclinesRelated source material

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