We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts or choices. The only s…

- Richard Heinberg

All of the easy oil is gone and what's left is requiring more energy and money and this has an effect on everything. Our problem is that we've create…

- Richard Heinberg

Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, i…

- 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 …

- Richard Heinberg

When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.

- Richard Heinberg

As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Go…

- 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 b…

- 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-…

- Richard Heinberg

If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that can be att…

- Richard Heinberg