Chris Martenson Keynote, 4th Annual Biophysical Economics Conference
Post Carbon Fellow Chris Martenson talks about his work in "challenging beliefs". Recorded in October 2012.
Bill Ryerson: The Challenges Presented by Global Population Growth
Originally posted at PeakProsperity At the heart of the resource depletion story that we track here at PeakProsperity.com is the number of people on earth competing for those resources. The global population is more than 7 billion now and...
Fiscal Cliff: Nowhere to go But Down
Most folks in Washington and on Wall Street are desperate to avoid the fiscal cliff. That’s because the automatic spending cuts and tax increases that would take effect if we go over the edge would mean an end to...
Nate Hagens: The End of Growth
Energy Hub, WUD Society and Politics Committee, and Madison Peak Oil Group host energy/finance expert Nate Hagens for a presentation that weaves together economics, anthropology, psychology, finance, trade, energy and human behavior into a coherent story about our human social system. In a...
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 5 – A theory of change for a century of crisis
The following is the final part of an essay which was originally an address to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change, November 16, 2012, by Richard Heinberg Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 If...
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 4 – Post-carbon governance
The following is Part 4 of an essay which was originally an address to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change, November 16, 2012, by Richard Heinberg Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 5 Are we...
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 3 – Scenarios for simplification: the options for managerial elites
The following is Part 3 of an essay which was originally an address to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change, November 16, 2012, by Richard Heinberg Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5 Setting aside...
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 2: War and peace in a shrinking economy
The following is Part 2 of an essay which was originally an address to the International Conference on Sustainability, Transition and Culture Change, November 16, 2012, by Richard Heinberg Read Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Will increasing...
Paul Gilding on the Great Disruption
Credit: Radio National: Sunday Extra | Download Paul Gilding is calling for a complete reset on the climate debate, saying we will not get a global agreement on climate change and it’s a waste of time to think we ever will. And...
Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 1 – The 21st century landscape of conflict
Read Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Many of the readers of postcarbon.org, Energy Bulletin, and now Resilience.org, have come to share a certain view of the world. It’s probably fair to say that, as a group, we see...