Richard Heinberg's Peak Everything - Part 6

Waking Up to the Century of Declines.
One of the world's foremost Peak Oil educators gives us his insight into the coming century. Recorded in Orewa on Tuesday 9th October 2007.

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[trippticket]

The only thing more depressing than watching millions of obese, retarded, TV zombies stuffing their pie holes full of Cheez Doodles (thanks Kunstler!), is how few people are watching important talks like this one.

Industrial culture deserves what it's about to get.

If you take anything out of this, take his permaculture comments seriously.

[ilexwhite]

Do yourself a big fat favor and plant a kitchen garden. You're gonna need it.

[christo930]

What we need is massive depopulation. People with large families are the problem. I have decided not to bring more children into this world and more people should be doing that. Would you rather have 10 billion people living like 18th century peasants or 1 billion living like Americans?

[gozala00]

we are and will destroy ourself and take before it that, all life on the planet.I feel so sad and helpless, especially for the life off all the others on the planet, and my grand children. We should have peels, to be able to shoos death and sacrifice our self for the good of the others. Thanks for the lecture

[Bunnicula71]

I really liked his presentation, but he doesn't deal with the one inevitable thing that needs to change about humanity: fecundity and devotion to god must be separate. Religions are all obsessed with more kids, but we will necessarily be forced to have less kids. The educated populace might go along, but dipshits who believe its their divine right and duty to pump out kids won't. What he calls, euphemistically, a contraction, might more accurately be described as a cull.

[xESOTERlC]

"Decades" is too long to consider

[jffryh]

@trippticket industrial culture could die a thousand deaths and not get what it deserves. the punishment will be suffered by the future generations who wont get the chance to be born

[jffryh]

@Dandaniels1978 they'll destroy themselves and they'll take all life on the planet out with them.

[jffryh]

@Icannottolerateit All humans die. but new humans may or may not continue to be born. If we could have ended the fossil fuel industries yesterday, then new humans could continue to be born for hundreds of millions of years. but as we are continuing to burn up all drops of fossil fuels as fast as possible all life will be ended within few centuries. no more new births forever.

[jffryh]

@Icannottolerateit there is no god

[linghun]

Richard Heinbergs plan has already been tried extensively in an entire country in the 1970s, Cambodia under Pol Pot.

[Dandaniels1978]

The US China and Russia will destroy themselves trying to dominate