“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.” KindEnergyMaterialsSourceCapableImpactEnvironmentalProductionsAvailableOilAlternativesVersusReliancePercentagesCriteriaRaw MaterialsConstancyDensityEnergy SourcesPerpetuatingAlternative EnergyPeak OilEnvironmental ImpactEnergy Production Author:Richard Heinberg
“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.” HumansWholePoliticalStruggleDemocracySurvivalClimateClimate ChangeOilBillionsStakesEcosystemsPolitical StrugglePeak Oil Author:Richard Heinberg
“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.” IfsWayWantRealUseProblemDifficultSimpleToo MuchOilBest WayVulnerabilityConsumptionReal ProblemsHigh PricesPeak Oil Author:Richard Heinberg
“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.” HumansIdeasSelfPastLawSocialGrowthNaturalBlindSpeciesOilRegimesImmuneNatural LawPeak Oil Author:Richard Heinberg
