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I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.

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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

2010, America, Events, Gas, Oil, System
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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.

Democracy, Depletion, Ecosystems, Humans, Oil, Struggle

If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can have a world that supports robust communities of healthy, creative people and ecosystems with millions of other species.

Ecosystems, Healthy, Nothing, People, Support

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

Decline, Fate, Real, Simply

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 created an infrastructure that's so dependent on oil. As oil becomes more expensive we're going to be locked into the transportation modes that our economy depends on. So we really need to start building an alternative economy before we get caught in a trap of our own making.

Building, Energy, Money, Problem, Start

As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian social program. Indeed, according to Bertram Gross in his startlingly prescient Friendly Fascism (1980), it is possible to achieve fascist goals within an ostensibly democratic society.

Bertram, Goal, Goals, Government, Points, Political
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