A paper published recently by the IMF gives us some insight into how oil prices and availability might affect the global economy in the next decade. The paper, entitled Oil and the World Economy: Some Possible Futures, starts with...
In his November 14 press conference president Obama made a few brief comments about global warming: “There’s no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way would involve making some tough political choices...
Enjoy this satirical look at the politics of energy by PCI Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg. CDN News, October 25 (Washington, DC) At a hastily organized news conference, president Obama this morning called for a new national effort to restore...
For the past three or four years media sources in the U.S. trumpeted the “game-changing” new stream of natural gas coming from tight shale deposits produced with the technologies of horizontal drilling and hydrofracturing. So much gas surged from...
Post Carbon Senior Fellow Richard Heinberg took his challenging and compelling messages on resilience, sustainability and a healthy future to Auckland on September 30, 2012. He asked and answered some of the most challenging questions we face today.
Diminishing Returns. Of the three phases of the industrial period (coal/steam/railroads, 1800-1930; oil/electrification/automobiles, 1930-1980; and computers/cell phones/Internet, 1980-present), the second yielded the lion’s share of growth. By the 1980s, electrification and car-buying had reached a point of diminishing returns in...
Richard Heinberg has dedicated his life to understanding the notion of ‘The End of Economic Growth’, why it is upon us and how humanity should best prepare and recalibrate itself for life in world beyond peak oil. Richard gave...
Credit: Radio New Zealand | Download Richard Heinberg talks about the urgent need to transition away from fossil fuels, and The End of Growth.
Credit: Fuzzy Logic Science | Download Richard Heinberg presents on The End of Growth. Recorded in Canberra, 21 Sept.
Every week, PCI’s Tod Brilliant will be offering an assessment of NBC’s new J.J. Abrams sci-fi drama, REVOLUTION. Why the TV talk at PCI? Two reasons: 1. PCI Population Fellow William Ryerson has spent decades advocating, with great...