Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known. . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; … - M. King Hubbert

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M. King Hubbert

Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known. . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.

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It is hard to know which is the more remarkable- that it took 600 million years for the Earth to make its oil, or that it took 300 years to use it up.

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So long as oil is used as a source of energy, when the energy cost of recovering a barrel of oil becomes greater than the energy content of the oil, production will cease no matter what the monetary price may be.

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The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-growth situation. Our culture is built on growth and that phase of human history is almost over and we are not prepared for it. Our biggest problem is not the end of our resources. That will be gradual. Our biggest problem is a cultural problem. We don't know how to cope with it.

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Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.

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History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

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